January 28, 2026
Professor Adnan A. Husain Lecture
Islamophobia and Antisemitism in the Crusader Society: From Medieval Mediterranean to Modern Global Histories
This lecture will examine the shared histories of Islamophobia and antisemitism as species of religious exclusion, bigotry and violence in Latin Christendom. It will explore how the crusades and its transformative role on medieval society, politics, economics and religious culture were crucial in changing the treatment of non-Christians under Latin Christian rule in the Medieval Mediterranean world. It will suggest that the dynamics of medieval persecution have had lasting consequences for the interrelated questions of Islamophobia and antisemitism.
Time: 4:30-6:15pm, followed by a networking session from 6:15 to 7:45pm
Location: Tanna Schulich Hall, 527 Sherbrooke Street West
Adnan A. Husain is Director of the School of Religion and Associate Professor of the Medieval Mediterranean and Islamicate World in the Department of History at Queen鈥檚 University in Kingston, Ontario. He specializes in the cross-cultural and interreligious histories of interaction and encounter among Muslims, Christians, and Jews in the Medieval Mediterranean world. He researches and teaches on religious and intellectual culture, coexistence and crusade, religious minorities, and the legacies of medieval processes and conceptions on contemporary Islamophobia, antisemitism, racism, and settler colonialism.
