Mohammed Rustom (born 1980) is Full Professor of

Islamic studies Islamic studies refers to the academic study of Islam, and generally to academic multidisciplinary "studies" programs—programs similar to others that focus on the history, texts and theologies of other religious traditions, such as Easter ...

and global philosophy at

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in Ottawa,

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and Director of the Carleton Centre for the Study of Islam. His research interests include Arabic and Persian Sufi literature,

Islamic philosophy Islamic philosophy is philosophy that emerges from the Islamic tradition. Two terms traditionally used in the Islamic world are sometimes translated as philosophy—falsafa (literally: "philosophy"), which refers to philosophy as well as logic, ...

, Qur’anic exegesis, translation theory, and cross-cultural philosophy.

Biography

Rustom was born in 1980 in

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, Canada in a Muslim family and grew up in Richmond Hill, Ontario. His family came to Canada in the 1970s from

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and are ethnically Khojas with roots in Karachi. He obtained degrees in the

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and graduated from the

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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. Rustom has studied Islamic philosophy under such prominent figures as

Seyyed Hossein Nasr Seyyed Hossein Nasr (; fa, سید حسین نصر, born April 7, 1933) is an Iranian philosopher and University Professor of Islamic studies at George Washington University. Born in Tehran, Nasr completed his education in Iran and the United St ...

, Todd Lawson,

William Chittick William C. Chittick (born 29 June 1943) is an American philosopher, writer, translator and interpreter of classical Islamic philosophical and mystical texts. He is best known for his work on Rumi and Ibn 'Arabi, and has written extensively on the ...

, and Michael Marmura. He duly acknowledges his debt to these scholars "as being the main catalysts" behind his interests in Islamic philosophy and Sufism.

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) * ''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)Reviews of ''The Condemnation of Pride and Self-Admiration'': * * * ''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) * ''Global Philosophy: A Sourcebook'' (Equinox, forthcoming) * ''Why Read Mulla Sadra Today?'' (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming)

References

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