Adnan A. Husain

Adnan A. Husain is Director of the School of Religion and Associate Professor of Medieval Mediterranean and Islamic World in the Department of History at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. He specializes in the cross-cultural and interreligious histories of interaction and encounter among Muslims, Christians and Jews in the Medieval Mediterranean world. He researches and teaches on religious and intellectual culture, mysticism and spiritual traditions, theological polemic and translation, coexistence and crusade, religious minorities, and the legacies of medieval processes and conceptions on contemporary Islamophobia, antisemitism, racism, and settler colonialism. He co-edited A Faithful Sea: Religious Cultures of the Mediterranean (1200-1700) and has completed a forthcoming monograph Identity Polemics: Encounters with Islam in the Medieval Mediterranean World (1100-1300). He is currently working on a longue duree study of the interconfessional history of the Holy Fire miracle in Jerusalem from its early medieval origins to contemporary celebrations in Occupied Palestine and a synthetic study titled “The Formation of a Crusading Society: Medieval Roots of Islamophobia, Antisemitism and Settler Colonialism.” He serves as a board member of Rahima Foundation, a Muslim social services and educational charity in San Jose, CA, and is co-host of Guerrilla History podcast and host of The Majlis, podcast of the Muslim Societies-Global Perspectives project at Queen’s.