Story that 9/11 began continues to distort our view of the world Ten years, two wars and incalculable acts of terrorism later, its meaning is still evolving – By Todd Babiak, edmontonjournal.com – Despite rather severe budget cuts in social science and humanities departments in North America in the last 10 years, there has been a boom in scholarship in Islamic history, society and culture. Institutes and centres have formed in Canada and around the world.
Amyn Sajoo, affiliated with the Institute of Ismaili Studies in London, England, and currently a visiting scholar at the Centre for the Comparative Study of Muslim Societies and Cultures at Simon Fraser University, edits a series of popular but scholarly introductions to Islam.
“Our courses are abundant now,” he said, on the phone from Vancouver. “Student enrollment in these courses has gone up significantly and the interest in learning more about the Muslim world has been quite intense.”
In his introduction to A Companion to the Muslim World, Sajoo writes, “Easy generalizations and stereotypes that link Islam to violence, gender abuse, uncivil politics and an aversion to science and modernity have been common since at least the colonial period. But recent events have hightened prejudice, as well as fear.”
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Please note that Amyn Sajoo is not the Head of the IIS. This is the reporter’s error.
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The original source as well as this blog post has now been corrected. Thanks.
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