McMaster University’s Department of Religious Studies offers excellent graduate opportunities to study Muslims and Islam.

Our department offers: a 12-month MA (with a Major Research Project); a two-year MA degree (with either a thesis or a project), as well as the PhD degree.

Areas of strength are:

• Study of Islamic texts and their interpretations
• Modern Islamic thought
• Islamic Reformation
• Ethnographic study of Islamic communities and practices
• Feminist and Gender Studies approaches to Islamic texts and cultures
• Training in Arabic