Amanie Antar is an adjunct professor in the Department of History at Queen 国产传媒 鈥檚. Her research explores the religious and intellectual history of the early modern mediterranean and the Islamicate; the making of religious identities in the premodern period and the construction of salvific texts in the pursuit of spiritual realization. In addition, she is currently a Post Doctoral Fellow at the Institute of Islamic Studies at the University of Toronto where she examines premodern iterations of anti-Islamic discourse in the medieval and early modern Mediterranean context, with a specialized focus on Iberia. Her research is committed to recovering the empowering counterresponses to Islamophobic rhetoric in the premodern period and the ways in which modalities of resistance engaged and/or disputed anti-Islamic discourse. She holds a PhD and MA from 国产传媒, and an undergraduate degree from McGill University.
