Imam Khattab Lecture in Islamic Studies
Each year the Imam Khattab Endowed Chair in Islamic Studies gives an annual public lecture on a particular topic related to the study of Islam. This year, the lecture will be held virtually and is open to the greater Toledo community.
Topic: "America’s Meatgrinders: How Authoritarians are Reshaping Islam in the Middle East"
Speaker: Ovamir Anjum, Ph.D.
Imam Khattab Chair of Islamic Studies
Monday, March 21, 2022
7 p.m.
Location: UToledo Law Center
About Ovamir Anjum, Ph.D.
Dr. Ovamir Anjum is the Imam Khattab Endowed Chair of Islamic Studies, associate professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies and affiliated faculty in the Department of History at UToledo’s College of Arts and Letters. He is an intellectual historian of Islam. His academic interests are united by a common theoretical focus on epistemology in various domains of Islamic thought, ranging throughout politics, law, theology and spirituality (including Sufism).
Anjum's work is interdisciplinary, drawing on classical Islamic studies, political theory and cultural anthropology. His recent monograph is “Politics, Law and Community in Islamic Thought: The Taymiyyan Moment” (Cambridge University Press, 2012), which explores the nexus of politics (siyasa), law (sharia), theology (kalam) in classical Islam, with comparative theoretical interest in western thought.