Office:	Department of Anthropology, Chester New Hall – 530
	Email:	iqbalb3@mcmaster.ca
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Basit Kareem Iqbal is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at McMaster University. He received a BA (Interdisciplinary Studies/Philosophy) from the University of Alberta, an MA in Religious Studies from the University of Toronto, and a PhD in Anthropology with an emphasis in Critical Theory from the University of California, Berkeley. His areas of research and teaching include political theology, humanitarianism, migration and refuge, Islam, secularism, and poetics.

His articles have appeared in Method and Theory in the Study of Religion, Anthropological Theory, The Journal of Religion, The Muslim World, diacritics, Anthropologie et sociétés, and more. He has edited journal issues on tribulation (Political Theology, 2022), destruction (Critical Times, 2023), and incapacitation (History of the Present, 2025). His forthcoming book, The Dread Heights: Tribulation and Refuge after the Syrian Revolution (Fordham, 2025), draws on fieldwork conducted in Jordan and Canada to offer an ethnography of Islamic theology in a time of war.

His current projects include work across genres on the representation of violence, the language of evil, and the figure of witness.