Islam in Canada - Prominent Canadian Muslims

Prominent Canadian Muslims

Prince Karim Aga Khan became the first Muslim and second religious figure after the Dalai Lama to get the country's honorary citizenship. Aga Khan is a spiritual leader for 20 million Ismaili Muslims worldwide and received his honorary Canadian citizenship in May, 2010.

Ingrid Mattson (born 1963) is a Canadian Muslim convert professor and activist and a former president of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA). She earned her Ph.D. in Islamic studies from the University of Chicago in 1999. She went on to be very active in educating Canadian Muslims to become active participants in Canadian society at large. Later, she became the Director of the Duncan Black Macdonald Center for the Study of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations and Professor of Islamic Studies and Christian-Muslim Relations at Hartford Seminary in Hartford, Connecticut. There Mattson founded the Islamic Chaplaincy program at Hartford Seminary, the first Islamic chaplaincy program in the United States. In 2011, Huron University College of The University of Western Ontario announced that its Anglican theology department will appoint Mattson as the Chair of the Islamic Studies Program.