Forough Jahanbakhsh

Associate Professor
Islamic Studies
Theological Hall 413
613 533 6000 x 75860
jahanbak@queensu.ca

Education

 B.A. Damavand College, Tehran, 1980
M.A. McGill University, 1989
Ph.D. McGill University, 1997

Research Focus

 Islam, democracy and modernity

Publications

“The Emergence and Development of Religious Intellectualism in Iran,” Historical Reflections, Vol.30, No.3, Fall 2004, pp.469-490.

“Religious and Political Discourse in Iran: Moving Toward Post-Fundamentalism” The Brown Journal of World Affairs, Vol. IX, Issue 2, Winter/Spring 2003, pp.243-254.

Abdolkarim Soroush: New “Revival of Religious Sciences,” Newsletter of International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (Leiden), No. 8, Sept. 2001, p.21.

Islam, Democracy and Religious Modernism in Iran, 1953-2000: From Bazargan to Soroush. Brill, 2000

"The Pir-Murid Relationship in the Thought of `Ayn al-Qudat & Hamadani" in Consciousness and Reality: Studies in Memory of Toshihiko Izutsu. .Edited by S. Jalaludin Ashtiyani and others. Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 1998, pp.129-149.

 

Courses

Supervisions

Melissa Croft, MA 2008. The Canadian Council of Muslim Women and Its Efforts at Promoting Civic Participation for Muslim Women: A Survey of Its Objective and Activities

Admed Adel Saleh, MA 2008. The Five Challenges: Shari ah Responds to Bioethics

Bronwen Jones, MA 2004. From Kemalism to secularism—and beyond? The evolution of religio-political interaction in Turkey.