Amyn Sajoo

Amyn Sajoo
Occupation	Scholar-in-Residence and Limited Term lecturer at the Centre for Comparative
Academic work
Institutions	Simon Fraser University in Canada

Amyn Sajoo is a Scholar-in-Residence and Limited Term lecturer at the Centre for Comparative at Simon Fraser University in Canada.

Education

• PhD, McGill University, Montreal
• LLB (Hons), King’s College, University of London

Career

• Scholar-in-Residence at Simon Fraser University
• Human Rights Advisor at Canadian Department of Justice, Ottawa

Academic Activities

• Host of 2020 Simon Fraser University public conversation series on ‘Identity and Citizenship’
• Canada-ASEAN Fellow at Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore
• Visiting Fellow at Cambridge University
• Tutored students at McGill University, University of British Columbia and the Institute of Ismaili Studies.

Books

• The Shari’a: History, Ethics, and Law. I.B. Tauris-Bloomsbury, 2018.
• The Shi’i World: Pathways in Tradition and Modernity. I.B. Tauris-Bloomsbury, 2015.
• Muslim Modernities: Expressions of the Civil Imagination. I.B. Tauris-Bloomsbury, 2008.
• Civil Society in the Muslim World. I.B. Tauris-Bloomsbury, 2004.
• A Companion to Muslim Cultures. I.B. Tauris-Bloomsbury, 2012.
• A Companion to Muslim Ethics. I.B. Tauris, 2010.
• A Companion to the Muslim World. I.B. Tauris-Bloomsbury, 2009.
• Muslim Ethics: Emerging Vistas. Macmillan-I.B. Tauris, 2004.

Articles

• “After Identity Politics? Faith in Liberal Citizenship,” Canadian Political Science Review, Vol 14:1, p.77-97, 2020.
• “The Fog of Extremism,” Social Inclusion, Vol. 4:2, p.26-39, 2016
• “Negotiating Virtue: Principlism and Maslaha in Muslim Bioethics,” Studies in Religion, Vol. 43:1, p. 53-69, 2014.
• “Fitting Islamophobia into an Historical Pattern,” Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, Vol. 34:2, p.191-196, 2014.
• "Islam and Human Rights - Congruence or Dichotomy?" Temple International & Comparative Law Journal, Vol. 4, p.23-34, 1990.

Source

• The institute of Ismaili Studies