Lecture
The Dread Heights: Tribulation and Refuge after the Syrian Revolution
- Date
- Thursday 30 April 2026
- Time
- Location
- Zoom
In The Dread Heights: Tribulation and Refuge after the Syrian Revolution (Fordham University Press, 2025), Basit Iqbal traces trajectories of Muslim giving across the Syrian diaspora. Exceeding the logics Western humanitarianism, Iqbal considers how religious imaginations animate giving against the backdrop of war and displacement. When "God grants relief," how do humans find refuge in what is lost?
About Basit Iqbal
Basit Kareem Iqbal is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Associate Member in the Department of Religious Studies at McMaster University. An anthropologist and longtime academic editor, his research explores the difficulty of the present within and across distinct traditions and forms of life.
Event Information
This event is the inaugural seminar in the “Genealogies of Islam and Humanitarianism” series organized by the ERC-funded Entangled Universals of Transnational Islamic Charity research project.
Discussant: Charlotte Al-Khalili, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in Anthropology. School of Global Studies, University of Sussex
