Building Bridges Seminar

Homayra Ziad is affiliated assistant professor of Muslim studies at Chicago Theological Seminary and is deeply involved in interreligious education, training, study, and research. Ziad’s research is in Indo-Persianate Islamic traditions, and she situates pre-colonial and early colonial India squarely within the Islamicate world. Much of her research is concerned with projects of reconciliation, and the hermeneutical struggle inherent in the encounter between systems of knowledge and identity-creation. She previously was the scholar of Islam at the Institute for Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Studies in Baltimore and an assistant professor of religion at Trinity College (Hartford, Connecticut). Ziad has been published in both academic and popular venues. She is recently co-founder and co-chair of the American Academy of Religion’s Interreligious and Interfaith Studies Group and co-founder/co-editor for the Palgrave series Interreligious Studies in Theory and Practice. Ziad received her B.A. from Bryn Mawr College and her Ph.D in Islamic studies at Yale University.