The Annual York-Noor Lecture Series 2009-2010

presents

The Bible in the Islamic Imagination: Reflections on 1400 Years of Interaction Between Islam and the Bible
Lecture by Professor Walid Saleh, University of Toronto

Date: Sunday December 20, 2009
Time: 3:00 p.m.
Location: Auditorium, Noor Cultural Centre
Admission: $5

Walid Saleh is Associate Professor in University of Toronto’s Department and Centre for the Study of Religion and Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations. His undergraduate degree was at the American University of Beirut, where he studied Arabic literature and language. Dr. Saleh’s interest in these two topics still animates his research, and he is a close follower of modern Arabic poetry. In addition to his doctoral studies at Yale University in Islamic Studies, where he studied the Qur’an and its exegesis in medieval Islamic Civilization, Dr. Saleh has also studied at Hamburg University. His first teaching appointment was at Middlebury College. He had fellowships from the NEH, the American Research Center in Cairo, and the Kluge Center at the Library of Congress. He was also awarded a three-year fellowship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

Painting: Vincent Van Gogh, “Still Life with Open Bible”