Salim Mansur

Professor Emeritus

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PhD, University of Toronto
E-mail: smansur@uwo.ca


Research Interests

Professor Mansur specialized his focus on international relations and comparative politics with special interest in the politics of South Asia and the Middle East.


Selected Publications

Books

  • 2011: Delectable Lie: a liberal repudiation of multiculturalism. Brantford, ON: Mantua Books.
  • 2009: Islam’s Predicament: Perspectives of a Dissident Muslim. Oakville, Canada and Niagara Falls, NY: Mosaic Press.
  • 1994: N.K. Choudhry and S. Mansur, (eds), The Indira-Rajiv Years: The Indian Economy and Polity 1966-1991. Toronto: Centre for South Asian Studies, University of Toronto.

Refereed Journal Articles

  • 2012: “On Historical Muhammad – One Muslim’s reflection,” in AXIAL (Journal of the SnowStar Institute), Fall, pp. 4-11.
  • 2005: “Muslims, Democracy, and the American Experience,” in Middle East Quarterly, vol. xii, no. 3, pp. 67-75.
  • 2005: “Allah Will Not Change the Condition of a People,” in Middle East Quarterly, vol. xii, no. 1, pp. 71-78.
  • 1997: “Ethnicity and Communalism in India,” in Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, vol. xx, no. 2, pp. 73-94.
  • 1996: “Constitutionalism and Ethnic Conflict: The Case of Pakistan,” in The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 325-352.

Book Chapters

  • 2009: “Immigration and multiculturalism undermine culture and security in Canada,” in H. Grubel (ed.), The Effects of Mass Immigration on Canadian Living Standards and Society (Vancouver: Fraser Institute,), 197-212.
  • 2008: “Immigration and Muslim Extremists in the Post-9/11 World,” in A. Moens and M. Collacott (eds.), The Immigration Policy and the Terrorist Threat in Canada and the United States (Vancouver: Fraser Institute,), pp. 21-36.
  • 2006: “Lesson of the War in Iraq,” in G.F. Walker (ed.), The Search for WMD: Non-Proliferation, Intelligence and Pre-Emption in the New SecurityEnvironment (Halifax: Centre for Foreign Policy Studies, Dalhousie University,), pp. 224-235.

Recent Conference Presentations

  • 2012: “On Historical Qur’an” and “On Historical Muhammad.” Two invited lectures given at the annual meeting of the SnowStar Institute on April
    12-13, Stratford, Ontario.