Todd Lawson


Todd Lawson is an Emeritus Professor of Islamic thought at the University of Toronto.

Biography

Todd Lawson specializes in Islamic Thought, specifically Shi'i Quran commentary and philosophical theology. He is associate professor emeritus at the University of Toronto and lives in Montreal. He obtained his BA in English Literature from the University of British Columbia, and his MA and PhD in Islamic studies from McGill University. His current research is focussed on the centrality and nature of metaphor in religious language or "revelation".

Works

  • Being Human: Bahá’í Perspectives on Islam, Modernity, and Peace
  • Tafsir as Mystical Experience: Intimacy and Ecstasy in Quran Commentary
  • The Quran: Epic and Apocalypse
  • Roads to Paradise: Eschatology and Concepts of the Hereafter in Islam
  • Baha’i History: A Special Issue of the Journal of Religious History
  • A Most Noble Pattern: Collected Essays on the Writings of the Báb,`Alí Muhammad Shirazi
  • Gnostic Apocalypse and Islam: Qur'an, Exegesis, Messianism, and the Literary Origins of the Babi Religion
  • The Crucifixion and the Qur’an: A Study in the History of Muslim Thought
  • ''Reason and Inspiration in Islam: Theology, Philosophy and Mysticism in Muslim Thought''