Building Bridges Seminar

Timothy J. Gianotti is an associate professor in Renison University College's Studies in Islam program at the University of Waterloo. His scholarly research and writing reflect a fascination with the soul, especially as understood by the classical Islamic philosophical, theological, and spiritual traditions. Gianotti was previously the director of Islamic studies at American Islamic College. The founder of the Islamic Institute for Spiritual Formation, he has served on the faculties of the University of Virginia, the University of Oregon, and Penn State University, as well as at York University and the Noor Cultural Centre (Toronto) as the York-Noor Fellow in Arabic & Islamic Studies. He holds degrees from Notre Dame and the University of Toronto. His publications include Al-Ghazali’s Unspeakable Doctrine of the Soul (2001) and In the Light of a Blessed Tree: Illuminations of Islamic Belief, Practice, and History (2011).