IAHR Executive Committee Members 2005-2010
Membership Secretary: Abrahim H. Khan, Canada
Abrahim H. Khan is a professor in the Faculty of Divinity at Trinity College, cross-appointed to the Graduate Centre for the Study of Religion, and the Joint Centre of Bioethics, University of Toronto. He studied at Howard, Yale and McGill (Ph.D) science, religion and philosophy. His research and teaching interests span Kierkegaard's thought, religion and science, comparative religion, cross-cultural religious thought, philosophy of religion, and the interplay of religion and international diplomacy. His publications include "Salighed" as Happiness? Kierkegaard on the Concept of Salighed (1985) and chapters, encyclopedia entries, and numerous journal articles: "Kierkegaard and the Glory of our Common Humanity," in Joyful Wisdom, 3 (1994), "Melancholy: An Elusive Dimension of Depression?" Journal of Medical Humanities, 15 (1994), "The Center Out There for Early Pre-Islamic Pilgrims: Is the Kab'ah the Original Sacra of Mecca?" in Year Book of Christian Archeology Supplement, 20 (1995), "Identity, Personhood, and Religion in Caribbean Context," in Harvard Working Papers on Latin America (Cambridge: Harvard University, The David Rockefeller Centre for Latin American Studies, 1997), Paper No. 96/97-98"Indian Identity and Religion in Caribbean Literature: Shikwa/Complaint," 'Ilu, Revistas de Ciencas de las Religiones, 3(1998), "Indo-Canadian Religiosity and the Challenge of Modern Science," Visva-Bharati Quarterly, 8/2 (1999), "Person and Boundedness in Wittgenstein and Tagore: Positioning Artificial Intelligence" in On Mind and Consciousness, edited (2003), and “The Study of Religion: The Academic Study of Religion in South Asia,” in Encyclopedia of Religion, 2nd ed (2005). A past president of the Canadian Theological Society and previous editor of its newsletter, he is editor of the Toronto Journal of Theology. He chaired the program units, History of the Study of Religion, and the Kierkegaard Seminar in the American Academy of Religion, was senior fellow at Harvard University’s Center for the Study of World Religions, and is a consulting editor of the Encyclopedia of Caribbean Religions.
