Shadaab Rahemtulla

Visiting Scholar (Fall 2016)

Dr. Rahemtulla serves as Assistant Professor at the University of Jordan’s School of International Studies, where he leads courses on Islam, human rights, and qualitative research methods. An Indo-Canadian Muslim, Dr. Shadaab Rahemtulla received his doctorate in Islamic thought at the University of Oxford in 2013. Dr. Rahemtulla also holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Arts in History from Simon Fraser University; a Master of Arts in Near and Middle East Civilizations from the University of Toronto. His book entitled Qur’an of the Oppressed: Liberation Theology and Gender Justice in Islam (forthcoming from Oxford University Press) explores how contemporary Muslim thinkers have read and grappled with the Qur’an in the light of lived realities of marginalization, engaging questions of race, gender, class and pluralism.