Officer of the Order of Canada

• Awarded on: October 21, 1999
• Invested on: January 13, 2000

For more than four decades, he has exerted an important influence on the direction of religious studies in countless universities. Founder of McGill University's Institute of Islamic Studies and a founding member of the American Society for the Study of Religion, he is an internationally-known scholar in the comparative study of religion. The author of several books, he has enhanced the relationship between various religious communities and has had an impact on the lives of many students.