Abrahim Khan
Professor Abrahim Khan is professor of religion at the University of Toronto, Canada. His teaching and research interests span Kierkegaard's thought, philosophical-theological ethics, cross-cultural studies in theology and comparative religion, and philosophy of religion. His publications include "Salighed" as Happiness? Kierkegaard on the Concept of Salighed (1985) and chapters, encyclopedia entries, and numerous journal articles among which are "Kierkegaard and the Glory of our Common Humanity," in Joyful Wisdom, 3 (1994), "Melancholy: An Elusive Dimension of Depression?" Journal of Medical Humanities, 15 (1994), "The Center Out There for Early Pre-Islamic Pilgrims: Is the Kab'ah the Original Sacra of Mecca?" in Year Book of Christian Archeology Supplement, 20 (1995), and "Identity, Personhood, and Religion in Caribbean Context", 'Ilu, Revistas de Ciencas de las Religiones, 2 (1997), and "Person and Boundedness in Wittgesnstein and Tagore: Positioning Artificial Intelligence" in On Mind and Consciousness, edited by Chhanda Chakraborti, Manas K. Mandal, and Rimi B. Chatterjee (2003). He is past president of the Canadian Theological Society and past editor of its newsletter. He chaired the Kierkegaard Seminar program unit in the American Academy of Religion for five years and was a senior fellow at Harvard University’s Center for the Study of World Religions. He is a member of the Joint Centre for Bioethics at the University of Toronto and a consulting editor of the Encyclopedia of Caribbean Religions.