Amanie Antar is an adjunct professor in the Department of History at Queen’s. 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 Queen’s University, and an undergraduate degree from McGill University.
