Mohammed Rustom | |
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Born | Mohammed Rustom August 21, 1980 Toronto, Canada |
Nationality | Canadian |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Toronto |
Influences | Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Michael Elias Marmura, William Chittick, Todd Lawson |
Academic work | |
Notable works | Inrushes of the Heart: The Sufi Philosophy of 'Ayn al-Qudat |
Website | www |
Mohammed Rustom (born 1980) is Full Professor of Islamic thought and global philosophy at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada and Director of the Carleton Centre for the Study of Islam.[1] An internationally recognized scholar whose works have been translated into a dozen languages, his research interests include Arabic and Persian Sufi literature, Islamic philosophy, Qur’anic exegesis, translation theory, and cross-cultural philosophy.[2]
Rustom was born in 1980 in Toronto, Canada in a Muslim family and grew up in Richmond Hill, Ontario.[3] His family came to Canada in the 1970s from Tanzania and are ethnically Khojas with roots in Karachi. He obtained degrees in the humanities and graduated from the University of Toronto in 2004 with an Hon. BA in Islamic studies (focusing on Arabic and Persian) and philosophy. He earned his PhD in Islamic philosophy and Sufi literature from the University of Toronto in 2009, and then took up a position at Carleton University.[1] Rustom has studied Islamic philosophy under such prominent figures as Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Todd Lawson, William Chittick, and Michael Marmura. He duly acknowledges his debt to these scholars "as being the main catalysts" behind his interests in Islamic philosophy and Sufism.[3]