Old Women of Nishapur event: A Seminar with Nada Moumtaz

The Old Women of Nishapur Initiative on Gender, Knowledge, Religion

Invites you to

ECONOMY, CHARITY, FAMILY

A SEMINAR WITH PROF. NADA MOUMTAZ (U. of TORONTO)

NADA MOUMTAZ is an Associate Professor in the Department for the Study of Religion and in the Department of Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations at the University of Toronto. Her fields of study intersect the anthropology of Religion, Islamic Studies, and research on Culture & Politics. Her book God’s Property: Islam, Charity, and the Modern State (2021) examines the contemporary Islamic revival of a centuries-old charitable practice of pious endowment in Beirut to shed new light on the secularization of religion through the lens of its separation from “the economy.”

To participate in the seminar please email setrag.manoukian [at] mcgill.ca to receive the pre-circulated readings that fill constitute the ground for the seminar discussion.