Anver Emon

Anver M. Emon studies pre-modern and modern Islamic legal history, the role of Shari'a both inside and outside the Muslim majority world, and the historiography of that that field of knowledge production. Since 2018, his appointment is split between the Faculty of Law and the Department of History in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. In the Faculty of Law, he has taught torts, constitutional law, racial politics and the law, legal ethics, and statutory interpretation. In history, he teaches in the field of Islamic legal history, law and religion, and historical epistemology in Islamic studies. He was named as a 2014 Guggenheim Fellow in the field of law, a member of the College of the Royal Society of Canada and awarded its 2017 Kitty Newman Memorial Award in Philosophy, and Senior Fellow, Massey College. The recipient of numerous research grants, he recently received two grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) for the projects: "Muslims in Canada Archive" (2020-2024) and "On CRA Audits of Muslim-Led Faith Based Charities" (2020-2021). 

In addition to publishing numerous articles, Professor Emon is the author of The 'Islamic' Deployed: The Study of Islam in Four Registers (Middle East Law and Governance, 2019), Islamic Natural Law Theories (Oxford University Press, 2010), and Religious Pluralism and Islamic Law: Dhimmis and Others in the Empire of Law (Oxford University Press, 2012), as well as the co-editor of Islamic Law and International Human Rights Law: Searching for Common Ground? (Oxford University Press, 2012).  He is the founding editor of Middle East Law and Governance: An Interdisciplinary Journal, and series editor of the Oxford Islamic Legal Studies Series.

For a profile of his research, see the review in International Innovation.