Where: University of Toronto Mississauga Campus
When: Summer 2025
Ages: This program is for adult learners, max 10-12 participants per session
*Participants are to arrange their own transportation, lodging, food, and other costs associated with other personal items.
UTM Residence is a convenient option as it is directly on campus. UTMLA will be happy to put you in touch with the UTM Residence.
Please contact utmla@utoronto.ca for more information.
Join us for our intensive in-person Summer Qur'anic Arabic offered by world-renowned scholar Prof. Walid Saleh from the University of Toronto. For 6 weeks in the summer 2025, participants will take part in daily reading of selected texts. In addition to in-class lectures and study group work, the cohort is invited to enjoy engaging social events. Upon successful completion, participants will receive a certificate of participation from UTMLA. Stay tuned for more information!
For further information, please contact us at utmla@utoronto.ca.
Meet Your Instructor
Professor Walid A. Saleh studied Arabic language and literature at the American University of Beirut (BA 1989). He earned his PhD in Islamic studies from Yale University in 2001. He was a recipient of the DAAD scholarship in 1996–97 and studied with the late Albrecht Noth in Hamburg during this period. Professor Saleh is a specialist on the Qur’an, the history of its interpretation (Tafsir), the Arabic manuscript tradition, Islamic apocalyptic literature, and the Muslim’s reception of the Bible. His second monograph, In Defense of the Bible (Brill, 2008), is a detailed study and an edition of al-Biqa`i’s (d. 1480) Bible treatise, “The Just Verdict on the Permissibility of Quoting from Old Scriptures,” which is the most extensive discussion of the place of the Bible in the Islamic religious tradition.
Professor Saleh teaches courses on Islam, the Qur’an, and Tafsir tradition; he is also a specialist on Arabic paleography and teaches advanced courses on the manuscript tradition of Arabic written literatures. He has published dozens of articles on the Qur’an, Tafsir, apocalyptic literature, and Mirabilia literature in Islam.
