BA (UQAM), MA.and PhD (McGill, Institute of Islamic Studies), G.C.Ed. (Higher Education) (Queensland)
Lecturer in Studies in Religion
Office: Forgan Smith E321
Phone: (+61 7) 3365 3321
Email: r.marcotte@uq.edu.au
Personal web page http://www.uq.edu.au/~uqrmarco/
Teaching
Introduction to Islam, Middle East, Islam in the Contemporary World, Arabic, Prophets, Persian, Women in Islam, Sufism.
Research interests
Islamic Studies, Modern and Classical Islamic Thought, Medieval Islamic Philosophy (Arabic and Persian), Women in Islam.
Current research projects
Medieval Islamic philosophy and contemporary Islamic thought.
Selected recent publications
In press “L’aperception de soi chez Shihāb al-Dīn al-Suhrawardī et l’héritage avicennien”, Laval Théologique et Philosophique.
Forthcoming“L’intellect chez Shihāb al-Dīn al-Suhrawardī (mort en 587/1191)”, “L’intellect chez Abū al-Barakāt al-Baghdadī (mort vers 547/1152)”, “L’intellect chez Abū al-‘Abbās al-Lawkarī (mort après 503/1109)”, in Meryem Sebti and Daniel de Smet (eds), Noétique et théorie de la connaissance dans la philosophie arabe des IXe-XVIIe siècles, Textes et Tradition (Paris: J. Vrin).
Forthcoming “Gender and sexuality online on Australian Muslim forums”, Special issue on Muslims and media (ed. Juliane Hammer), Contemporary Islam:Dynamics of Muslim Life.
2008 “Muslim veils: the dynamics and paradox of resistance,” in Michaela Moravčíková and Lucia Grešková(eds), Ženy a náboženstvá II – Women and Religions II (original text in English with Slovak translation) (Bratislava, Slovakia: Institute for State-Church Relations), pp. 137-54.
2008 “The Qur’ān in Egypt I: Bint al-Shāti’ on women’s emancipation,” in Khaleel Mohammad and Andrew Rippin (eds), Coming to terms with the Qur’ān: a volume in honor of Professor Issa Boullata (North Haledon, NJ: Islamic Publications International), pp. 179-208.
2006 “What might an Islamist gender discourse look like?, special issue “Women and Islam”, Australian Religion Studies Review 19, 2, pp. 141-67.
2006 “Preliminary notes on the life and work of Abū al-‘Abbās al-Lawkarī (d. after 503/1109)”, Anaquel de estudios árabes 17, pp. 133-57.
2005 “Identity, power, and the Islamist discourse on women: an exploration of Islamism and gender issues in Egypt,” in Nelly Lahoud, A.H. Johns and Allan Patience (eds), Islam in world politics (London: RoutledgeCurzon), pp. 67-92.
2005 “Reason (‘aql) and direct intuition (mushāhada) in the work of Shihāb al-Dīn Suhrawardī (d. 1191)”, in Todd Lawson (ed.), Reason and inspiration in Islam: essays in honour of Hermann Landolt (London: Institute of Ismaili Studies in association with I.B. Tauris, pp. 221-34.
2005 “Egyptian Islamists and the status of Muslim women”, Journal for the Study of Religious Ideologies 11, pp. 71-81.
2005 “The relation between freedom and religion: an Iranian discussion”, Australian Religion Studies Review 18, 1, pp. 49-67.
2005 “New garbs for old Muslim feminist theologies: Islamists arguing for women’s rights in Islam”, Women-Church: An Australian Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 36, pp. 16-22.
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Other activities and service
Honours, Postgraduate Coordinator, Studies in Religion.
2008 - Australian Research Council (ARC) Discover Grant, 2009-2011