Amyn Sajoo

Amyn Sajoo is scholar-in-residence and lecturer at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. His research and teaching is at the interface of citizenship, human rights and identity.

Dr. Sajoo was earlier affiliated with Cambridge and McGill universities, the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore, and the Institute of Ismaili Studies (IIS), London.

Since 2018, he has hosted a public conversations series, sponsored by Simon Fraser University. His most recent guests were former Supreme Court of Canada chief justice Beverley McLachlin, and the writers Kamal al-Solaylee, Janika Oza, Saeed Teebi and Anosh Irani.

Dr. Sajoo has contributed extensively to the newsmedia, including the Guardian, BBC, Open Democracy and the Globe & Mail. His many books include Pluralism in Old Societies and New States; Muslim Modernities: Expressions of the Civil Imagination (edited volume, 2008), and most recently, the edited collection The Shari’a: History, Ethics and Law, which won the American Library Association’s “Choice Outstanding Academic Title” accolade.