Mohammed Rustom

Mohammed Rustom
Born
Mohammed Rustom

August 21, 1980
Toronto, Canada
NationalityCanadian
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Toronto
InfluencesSeyyed Hossein Nasr, Michael Elias Marmura, William Chittick, Todd Lawson
Academic work
Notable works
The Triumph of Mercy: Philosophy and Scripture in Mulla Sadra

The Study Quran: A New Translation and Commentary

Inrushes of the Heart: The Sufi Philosophy of 'Ayn al-Qudat
Websitewww.mohammedrustom.com

Mohammed Rustom (born 1980) is a Canadian Islamic studies scholar. He is 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][2] His research interests include Arabic and Persian Sufi literature, Islamic philosophy, Qur’anic exegesis, translation theory, and cross-cultural philosophy.[3]

Biography

Rustom was born in 1980 in Toronto, Canada, into a Muslim family, and was raised in Richmond Hill, Ontario.[4] His family, originally from Tanzania, moved to Canada in the 1970s and are ethnically Khojas with origins in Karachi. He completed his undergraduate studies in the humanities at the University of Toronto in 2004, earning an Hon. BA in Islamic studies with a focus on Arabic and Persian, as well as philosophy. He then obtained a PhD in Islamic philosophy and Sufi literature from the same university in 2009 and subsequently joined Carleton University.[2] Rustom studied Islamic philosophy under notable scholars such as Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Todd Lawson, William Chittick, and Michael Elias Marmura, acknowledging their significant influence in shaping his interest in Islamic philosophy and Sufism.[4]

Works

  • Journal of Islamic Philosophy: A Special Issue on Mulla Sadra (2010)
  • The Triumph of Mercy: Philosophy and Scripture in Mulla Sadra (SUNY Press, 2012) (Winner of Iran's 21st International Book of the Year Prize)[5]
  • In Search of the Lost Heart: Explorations in Islamic Thought (co-ed.) (SUNY Press, 2012)
  • Sufi Metafiziği (Nefes, 2014)
  • The Study Quran: A New Translation and Commentary (assistant ed.) (HarperOne, 2015)
  • The Condemnation of Pride and Self-Admiration (Islamic Texts Society, 2018)[6]
  • Mysticism and Ethics in Islam (co-ed.) (AUB Press, 2022)
  • Journal of Sufi Studies: Special Issue on Sufi Texts in Translation (co-ed.) (Brill, 2022)
  • The Essence of Reality: A Defense of Philosophical Sufism (NYU Press, 2022)
  • Islamic Thought and the Art of Translation: Texts and Studies in Honor of William C. Chittick and Sachiko Murata (Brill, 2023)
  • From the Divine to the Human: Contemporary Islamic Thinkers on Evil, Suffering, and the Global Pandemic (co-ed.) (Routledge, 2023)
  • Inrushes of the Heart: The Sufi Philosophy of 'Ayn al-Qudat (SUNY Press, 2023)

See also

References

  1. ^ "Mohammed Rustom". Carleton Centre for the Study of Islam. 2017-02-06. Retrieved 2024-09-17.
  2. ^ a b "The Study Quran provides a baseline for understanding Islam". Ottawa Citizen. 1970-01-01. Retrieved 2021-01-26.
  3. ^ * Rustom, Mohammed (2020-07-09). "Author Detail". Renovatio. Retrieved 2021-01-26.
  4. ^ a b Rustom, Mohammed (2018). "Neo-Orientalism and the Study of Islamic Philosophy: An Interview with Professor Mohammed Rustom". Journal of Islamic and Muslim Studies. 3 (1). Indiana University Press: 112. doi:10.2979/jims.3.1.11. ISSN 2470-7066.
  5. ^ Reviews of The Triumph of Mercy: Philosophy and Scripture in Mulla Sadra:
  6. ^ Reviews of The Condemnation of Pride and Self-Admiration:
    • Qureshi, Jawad Anwar (2019). "Al-Ghazali on the Condemnation of Pride and Self-Admiration". Journal of Islamic and Muslim Studies. 4 (1). Indiana University Press: 107–111. ISSN 2470-7074.
    • Burrell, David B. (2019). "Al-Ghazali on Condemnation of Pride and Self-Admiration (Book XXIX of The Revival of the Religious Sciences [Ihya' Ulum al-Din])". The Muslim World. 109 (3): 466. doi:10.1111/muwo.12302. ISSN 0027-4909.