Founding director
Dr. Derryl MacLean is the founding Director of the Centre for Comparative Muslim Studies at Simon Fraser University. A social historian of religion with a concern for the social consequences of religious contact and change, his research spans ‘Abbasid and Fatimid history on the eastern frontier and the initial encounter with Buddhism and Hinduism; early modern millennial, communal, and apocalyptic movements in the Persianate world; and diasporic Muslim communities in the West. He is the author of numerous scholarly articles, the book Religion and Society in Arab Sind (“Theoretical Studies in Sociology and Anthropology,” E.J. Brill, 1989), and the co-editor of Cosmopolitanism in Muslim Contexts: Perspectives from the Past (Edinburgh University Press, 2013).
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