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Sara Abdel-Latif
McGill University
Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
Discipline
Religious Studies/Theology
Sub Areas
Mysticism/Sufi Studies
7th-13th Centuries
Islamic Thought
Islamic Studies
Gender/Women's Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Egypt
Iran
Islamic World
Specialties
Sufi Qur'anic Exegesis
Sufism
Tafsir/Qur'anic Studies
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
English (fluent)
French (intermediate)
Spanish (advanced)
Persian (elementary)
Turkish (elementary)
Education
PhD | 2020 | Study of Religion | University of Toronto
MA | 2014 | Department for the Study of Religion | University of Toronto
BA | 2012 | Humanities | Carleton University
Abstracts
Al-Sulamī’s Ḥaqā'iq al-Tafsīr: Interpreting the Qur’an through Lived Mystical Experience Where Al-Zamakhshari and Rumi Meet: Renegotiating Genre Boundaries in the Arabic and Persian Tafsir Tradition Medieval Female Donors and the Rise of Gender-Segregated Sufi Spaces