In October 2007, the federal government inaugurated the first Canadian Islamic History Month. This month not only celebrates the extensive and significant contributions of Muslim communities across various sectors of Canadian society but also seeks to enhance awareness of Islam’s history within Canada. It aims to foster a deeper appreciation of the cultural diversity within local Muslim communities. Additionally, it encourages nationwide discussions on Islamophobia, its effects on individuals and communities, and the necessary measures to combat it in all its manifestations.
UTSC staff and librarians have assembled a list of resources that aims to celebrate Muslim contributions in Canada and to educate on Islamophobia. We appreciate feedback and suggestions on additional resources; please share yours.
Non-Fiction Books
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Book: available at UTSC Library (BP187.65 .C22 E3633 2018) Written to mark the anniversary of the opening of Edmonton's Al Rashid Mosque in 1938, this book traces the mosque's role in education and community leadership, and celebrates the numerous contributions of Muslim Canadians in Edmonton and across Canada. |
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Beyond the divide : a century of Canadian mosque design Tracking the country from east to west and to the north, Tammy Gaber visits ninety mosques in more than fifty cities, including Canada's most northern places of worship in Nunavut and the North West Territories. For nearly a century Muslims have made mosques in a variety of spaces, from converted shops and vacated churches to large, purpose-built complexes. Drawing on site photographs, architectural drawings, and interviews, Gaber explores the extraordinary diversity in how these spaces have been designed, built, and used--as places not only of worship, but of community gathering, education, charitable work, and civic engagement. |
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EBook: Available online In this ethnographic study of four full-time Islamic schools, Jasmin Zine explores the social, pedagogical, and ideological functions of these alternative, and religiously-based educational institutions. Based on eighteen months of fieldwork and interviews with forty-nine participants, Canadian Islamic Schools provides significant insight into the role and function that Islamic schools have in Diasporic, Canadian, educational, and gender-related contexts. |
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Book: UTSC Library Cookbook collection (TX724.5.I4 H87 2019) |
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Ebook: available online This book provides a unique perspective that treats anti-racism and cross-cultural interactions as a process for better understanding how you see the world--a very different process than merely describing how others see the world differently from you. This volume is suitable not only for psychology professionals, but anyone who wants to explore what it means to be anti-racist and culturally competent. |
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Canadian social scientists examine the various ways that Muslims in that country have been affected by the post-9/11 era of imperialist wars, draconian domestic-security policies, and media sensationalism. They focus on gender and cultural politics, media and representation, education, and security. Among their topics are the great Canadian Shari'a debate, toward a framework for investigating Muslim women and political engagement in Canada, media reconstruction of the Muslim imaginary in the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's sitcom Little Mosque on the Prairie, civic engagement and the pedagogy of Islamic schools, and the safeguarding of the nation against uncivilized Muslims. Book: available at UTSC Library (F5033 .M9 I85 2012) |
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EBook: Available online This book is intended to offer a constructive addition to the current discourse on the place of Canadian Muslims and Islam in Canada in the hopes of facilitating greater understanding, respect, and acceptance. |
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EBook: Available online Made for the Eye of One Who Sees uncovers the contributions of scholars and museum curators at Canadian institutions to current scholarship on Islamic art. Employing a wide range of approaches and theoretical perspectives, contributors cover topics from across the Islamic world dating from the eighth century to the present. |
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Ebook: available online This book gives us a detailed look at Muslim presence in Canada, starting from the pioneer settlers from Syria/Lebanon in the early twentieth century and moving on to the more modern mid-century arrivals from South Asia and Africa. Partly told in their own words, the stories collected here give us a rare insight into the lives and successes of these pioneer Muslims. |
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Ebook: available online Resisting easy explanations about Muslim identity, this book makes a contribution to understanding the intersection of race, class, gender, sexuality, and religion in the experience of Muslim women living in Canada |
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EBook: Available online In Praying to the West, he explores the unknown history of Islam across the Americas, traveling to thirteen unique mosques in search of an answer to how this religion has survived and thrived so far from the place of its origin. From California to Quebec, and from Brazil to Canada's icy north, he meets the members of fascinating communities, all of whom provide different perspectives on what it means to be Muslim. |
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EBook: Available online This book engages the diverse meanings and interpretations of Islamic and Western law which have affected people and societies across the globe, past and present, in correlation to the epistemological groundings of those meanings and interpretations. The volume takes a distinctively comparative approach, advancing dialogue on crucial transnational and global debates over the history of Western and Islamic approaches to law, politics and society and their relevance for today. |
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EBook: Available online Based on in-depth interviews with more than 130 young people, youth workers, and community leaders, Jasmin Zine's ethnographic study unpacks the dynamics of Islamophobia as a system of oppression and examines its impact on Canadian Muslim youth. Covering topics such as citizenship, identity and belonging, securitization, radicalization, campus culture in an age of empire, and subaltern Muslim counter publics and resistance, Under Siege provides a unique and comprehensive examination of the complex realities of Muslim youth in a post-9/11 world. |
Fiction Books
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Ebook: Available online Eighteen-year-old Muslims Adam and Zayneb meet in Doha, Qatar, during spring break and fall in love as both struggle to find a way to live their own truths. |
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Book: available at UTSC Library (PZ7.1.A436 Lp 2022) Adam and Zayneb embark on the Umrah, a pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina, in Saudi Arabia, but as one wedge after another drives them apart while they make their way through rites in the holy city, Adam and Zayneb start to wonder if their meeting was just an oddity after all. |
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Ebook: Available online Eid: The short, single-syllable word conjures up a variety of feelings and memories for Muslims. Maybe it's waking up to the sound of frying samosas and simmering pistachio kheer, maybe it's the pleasure of putting on a new outfit for Eid prayers, or maybe it's the gift giving and holiday parties to come that day. Whatever it may be, for those who cherish this day of celebration, the emotional responses may be summed up in another short and sweet word: joy. The anthology will also include a poem, graphic-novel chapter, and spot illustrations |
Reports
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Combatting Hate, Islamophobia and its impact on Muslims in Canada 2023 Report of the Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights. |
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Prepared by National Council of Canadian Muslims |
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Report of the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage, February 2018 |
Organizations
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Prepared by the Canadian Race Relations Foundation |