Professor Roxanne D. Marcotte holds MA and PhD degrees from the Institute of Islamic Studies at McGill University. For almost ten years, she was Assistant, then Associate Professor of Islamic Studies and Arabic language at the University of Queensland, where she remains an Honorary Research Senior Fellow in Religious Studies. She is currently Full Professor of contemporary Islam in the Department of Religious Studies at the Université du Québec à Montréal. Her publications encompass medieval Islamic intellectual traditions in Arabic and Persian, particularly the thought of Shihāb al-Dīn al-Suhrawardī and Mullā Ṣadrā, and contemporary Islamic intellectual traditions, with a focus on modernity and scriptural exegeses, Islamic jurisprudence, and feminist interpretations. A member of the Société internationale d’histoire des sciences et de la philosophie arabes et islamiques (SIHSPAI), Professor Marcotte’s most recent book is a co-edited volume entitled L’islam vécu au Québec: voie/x de musulmans et musulmanes (Presses de l’Université Laval, 2025).
