Aisha Gray Henry

Aisha Gray Henry, also known as Virginia Gray Henry Blakemoor, is an American writer, Islamic scholar, filmmaker and editor.

Biography

Gray Henry earned her B.A. in art history and world religions from Sarah Lawrence College and her M.A in education from the University of Michigan.[1] She also studied for ten years at Al-Azhar.[2] In 1981, she helped to establish the Islamic Texts Society in Cambridge.[3][1]

Gray Henry is the founder and director of the Islamic publishing house Fons Vitae.[4][5] Grey Henry and Fons Vitae have worked on making the works of al-Ghazali accessible to children.[4] In 2006, Gray Henry arranged for an interfaith meeting between the Dalai Lama and Muslim scholars.[1]

Gray Henry is an art historian and scholar of religion who taught at the Dalton School, Fordham and Cambridge Universities.[1] Gray Henry is a co-founder and board member of the Thomas Merton Center Foundation where she arranges meetings on the works of Thomas Merton.[6]

Filmography

  • Beads of Faith: Pathways to Meditation and Spirituality Using Rosaries, Prayer Beads and Sacred Words[7] available as a book and film.
  • Islam: A Pictorial Essay
  • Cairo: 1001 Years of Art and Architecture
  • Death and Transformation: The Personal Reflections of Huston Smith[6]
  • The Ornaments of Lhasa: Islam in Tibet[8]

Works

  • Understanding Islam and the Muslims
  • The Life of the Prophet Mohammad, credited as Aisha Governeur with Leila Azzam
  • Water: Its Spiritual Significance, edited by Elena Lloyd-Sidle and Virginia Gray Henry Blakemore
  • Contributor to Fons Vitae Thomas Merton Series
  • Contributor to Praeger series, Voices of Islam

References

  1. ^ a b c d "biography". Islamic resource bank. Retrieved 5 July 2017.
  2. ^ "The American Muslim (TAM)". theamericanmuslim.org. Retrieved 2022-04-16.
  3. ^ "About us". Islamic Texts Society. Retrieved 5 July 2017.
  4. ^ a b "Aisha Gray Henry". WISE Muslim Women. 2020-10-09. Retrieved 2022-04-16.
  5. ^ "Aisha Gray Henry". The Muslim 500. 28 May 2018. Retrieved 2022-04-16.
  6. ^ a b "Gray Henry-Blakemoore". Center for Interfaith Relations. Retrieved 2022-04-16.
  7. ^ "Beads of Faith". Fons Vitae. Retrieved 5 July 2017.
  8. ^ Henry-Blakemore, Gray (1997), Islam in Tibet: the ornaments of Lhasa, Fons Vitae (Firm), Fons Vitae, OCLC 41908792, retrieved 2024-02-01


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