Author Night with Dr Tahera Qutbuddin
On April 14th, 2025, at the University of Toronto, join us from 5PM-7PM for this event, where we will gather for a brief address followed by an engaging discussion, with the Shaykh Zayed Book Award Winner, Dr. Tahera Qutbuddin (Abdulaziz Saud AlBabtain Laudian Professor of Arabic, Oxford).
She is a translator of Nahj al Balagha (Peak of Eloquence – Sermons of Imam Ali b. Abi Talib) one of the most treasured works of classical Arabic prose. The Shi’a Research Institute, through its open access grant, has proudly sponsored free digital access to this publication. Click here to download a free copy.
Refreshments will be served. All are welcome to this engaging and thought-provoking discussion, to be held within the Toronto School of Theology building, at the University of Toronto. This event is co-organized by SRI and the Toronto School of Theology.
Registration is required by April 9th, 2025.
Dr. Tahera Qutbuddin
Professor of Arabic, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Oxford University
Originally from Mumbai, Dr. Qutbuddin earned a BA and Tamhidi Magister from Ain Shams University, Cairo, and a PhD from Harvard. She taught briefly at Yale and the University of Utah, then for two decades at the University of Chicago.
Since July 2023, she is the AlBabtain Laudian Professor of Arabic in the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Oxford, and a Professorial Fellow of St John’s College.
She teaches classical Arabic literature from its oral beginnings in the 7th century to the cusp of modernity around 1800, seeing it as a direct window into the rich culture and thought of the vast medieval Arabic-speaking world.
She has been crowned by HE Sheikh Thani for achieving third place in the category of Arabic to English translations, for her work on the Nahj al-Balagha, in the “2024 Sheikh Hamad Award for Translation and International Understanding” winners circle.
Event Location:
Jay Room, 1st Floor
Toronto School of Theology
47 Queen’s Park Cres E,
Toronto, ON, M5S 2C3