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Mohammed Rustom

Canadian Islamic studies scholar (born 1980) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Mohammed Rustom
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Mohammed Rustom (born 1980) is a Canadian Islamic studies scholar. He is professor of Islamic thought at Carleton University and Executive Director of the Tokat Institute for Advanced Islamic Studies.[1][2] His research interests include Arabic and Persian Sufi literature, Islamic philosophy, Qur’anic exegesis, translation theory, and cross-cultural philosophy.[3]

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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]

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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)
  • A Sourcebook in Global Philosophy (Equinox, 2025)
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