  {"id":5769,"date":"2022-10-24T14:40:17","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T18:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/icslac\/?post_type=cu_people&#038;p=5769"},"modified":"2026-04-22T10:02:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T14:02:55","slug":"noah-taj","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/icslac\/people\/noah-taj\/","title":{"rendered":"Noah Hasan Taj"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Noah H. Taj completed his finance degree at the University of Ottawa and presently works as an auditor. He subsequently completed an MA in Religion at ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ University, where he is now pursuing his doctorate at the Institute of Comparative Studies in Literature, Arts, and Culture (ICSLAC) as well as conducting research on the Q\u016bnaw\u012b-\u1e6c\u016bs\u012b correspondence at the Centre for the Study of Islam. His publications have been featured in major peer-reviewed venues, such as JMIAS, Studia Islamica, and The Philosophical Forum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Areas of Academic Interest<\/strong><br>\nEpistolary Theory, Islamic Philosophy, Akbarianism<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Conference Presentations<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;From Aqw\u0101l to A\u1e25w\u0101l: Bah\u0101\u02be al-D\u012bn al-Qazw\u012bn\u012b\u2019s (d. 580\/1184) Commentary on Chapter 91 from Man\u0101zil al-s\u0101\u02beir\u012bn.\u201d Bridging the Gap: Texts, Commentaries and the New Audience. Humboldt University. Berlin, July 27\u201330, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIbn Kam\u0101l&#8217;s Fatw\u0101 on Ibn \u02bfArab\u012b: A Study &amp; Translation.\u201d Beginnings (Canadian Association for the Study of Islam and Muslims, Inaugural Conference). McMaster University. Hamilton, May 26, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Selected Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Peer-Reviewed Articles<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cDaw\u016bd al-Qay\u1e63ar\u012b: On Recognizing Real Love.&#8221; Global Philosophy: A Sourcebook, edited by Mohammed Rustom. Sheffield: Equinox, accepted and forthcoming.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cMull\u0101 Q\u0101bi\u1e0d &amp; The Question of Prophetic Superiority: An Annotated Study and Translation of Ibn Kam\u0101l P\u0101sh\u0101\u2019s (d. 940\/1534) Ris\u0101lat f\u012b \u02beAf\u1e0daliyyat Mu\u1e25ammad.\u201d Studia Islamica (Brill), accepted and forthcoming.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cOn Rooting Religious Studies: The Metaphysical Proposal of Ren\u00e9 Gu\u00e9non.\u201d The Philosophical Forum (Wiley) 54, no. 1-2 (2023): 3-26.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cIbn Kam\u0101l&#8217;s Fatw\u0101 on Ibn \u02bfArab\u012b: A Study &amp; Translation.\u201d Journal of Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society 72 (2022): 37-64.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Book Reviews<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Review of Jari Kaukua, Suhraward\u012b\u2019s Illuminationism: A Philosophical Study (Leiden: Brill, 2022), Journal of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations (Routledge), forthcoming.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Review of Mukhtar Ali, Philosophical Sufism: An Introduction to the School of Ibn al-&#8216;Arab\u012b. Routledge Studies in Islamic Philosophy (London: Routledge, 2021), Studia Islamica (Brill) 117 (2022): 380-3.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Review of Mohammed Rustom (trans.), Al-Ghaz\u0101l\u012b, The Condemnation of Pride and Self-Admiration (Cambridge: Islamic Texts Society, 2018), Al-Abhath (Brill) 69 (2021): 244-7.<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Miscellaneous<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cFrom the Divine to the Human: New Perspectives on Evil, Suffering, and the Global Pandemic: Conference Report.\u201d June 28\u201330th, 2022 (online). Journal of Islamic and Muslim Studies 7, no. 2 (2022): 120-7.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>TA Assignment \/ Courses Taught<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Judaism, Christianity and Islam RELI 1710<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mystical and Contemplative Traditions RELI 2713<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Qur&#8217;an RELI 2330<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Islam RELI 2310<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5771,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Noah","cu_people_last_name":"Taj","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[13,14],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-5769","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-current-students","cu_people_type-literary-studies"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"PhD Candidate, Literary Studies","cu_people_degree":"B.Comm (University of Ottawa), M.A. (ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ University) ","cu_building":false,"cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"none","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"noahtaj@cmail.carleton.ca","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/icslac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/5769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/icslac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/icslac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/icslac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/icslac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/5769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6955,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/icslac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/5769\/revisions\/6955"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/icslac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/icslac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/icslac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=5769"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/icslac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=5769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}