Ayoub, Dr. Mahmoud Mustafa

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Professor of Islamic Studies and Comparative Religion

B.A. (Philosophy), American University of Beirut 1964
M.A. (Religious Thought), University of Pennsylvania 1966
Ph.D. (History of Religion), Harvard University 1975

Mahmoud Ayoub was born in 1938 in south Lebanon.  Upon completion of his education, he has authored a number of books in English and Arabic in the area of Islam and Inter-religious dialogue. The most notable are Redemptive Suffering in Islam and The Quran and Its Interpreters (2 volumes to date). He has published over fifty scholarly articles both as chapters in edited works as well as in well-known academic refereed journals. Two of his recent works are Crisis of Muslim History: Religion and Politics in Early Islam, 2003, and (forthcoming, 2004) Islam in Faith and History (both published by Oneworld Publications). Currently he is working on the third volume of The QurҒan and Its Interpreters.

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http://www.temple.edu/religion/faculty/ayoub.html

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