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Karim H. Karim

Karim H. Karim, Chancellor’s Professor at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, has served as Director of the Carleton Centre for the Study of Islam, the Institute of Ismaili Studies (UK), and Carleton’s School of Journalism and Communication. He has held visiting positions at Harvard, Simon Fraser, and Aga Khan universities and has delivered distinguished lectures around the world. Dr. Karim’s writings have been extensively cited and translated into several languages. His publications include the co-edited volumes Re-Imagining the Other: Culture, Media, and Western-Muslim Intersections and Engaging the Other: Public Policy and Western-Muslim Intersections. He received the inaugural Robinson Prize for the critically acclaimed book Islamic Peril: Media and Global Violence. Professor Karim’s most widely-read article is the co-authored “Clash of Ignorance,” which presents an incisive critique of the clash of civilizations thesis. His current research examines religious intersections, particularly in Indic-Islamic contexts. Karim has been honored by the Canadian government for fostering collaboration between religious communities.

Posts From This Author

[IMTF] Re-asserting the Qur’an’s Cosmopolitan Ethics

By Karim H. Karim // September 26, 2022March 22, 2023

The Prophet Muhammad’s open and outward-looking worldview has been constricted over centuries into insular dogmas that circumambulate increasingly tighter circles. Contemporary extremists, particularly, seek to hold believers hostage in narrow confines. The Prophet’s establishment of…