The Covering Islam series presents a lecture by scholar Humeira Iqtidar.
Lunch available from 12:15 pm for registered participants.
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About the Speaker
Humeira Iqtidar is professor of politics at King’s College London. She is also a co-convenor of the London Comparative Political Theory Workshop and Race and Racism in the Global South seminar series and editor of McGill-Queen’s Studies in Modern Islamic Thought. Her research brings together postcolonial theory, comparative political theory, and Islamic thought with a focus on modern South Asia and has been concerned with questions of justice and tolerance, the place of religion in contemporary political imagination, the politics of knowledge, and the legacies of colonialism. Her research has been featured in interviews and articles in Al-Jazeera, the BBC World Service, Voice of America, Der Spiegel, the Social Science Research Council Online, Dawn, The Guardian, Express Tribune, The Conversation, and openDemocracy. Before joining King’s College London, she was based at the University of Cambridge as a fellow of King’s College and graduate research officer at the Centre of South Asian Studies. She has studied at the University of Cambridge, McGill University, and Quaid-e-Azam University.
About the Series
The Covering Islam series is organized under the aegis of the Humanities in the World Initiative at the Cogut Institute for the Humanities and cosponsored by the Center for Middle East Studies. It takes its cue from Edward Said’s 1981 book, Covering Islam , which explores distorting representations of Islam — as an object of judgment — by the Western media. Talks in the series will focus on the Islamic humanities, thinking with and through Islam rather than only thinking about it. The series is co-curated by Tiraana Bains, Leela Gandhi, Mohamed Amer Meziane, and Suvaid Yaseen.