Mohammed Rustom
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August 21, 1980
Mohammed Rustom | |
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| Born | Mohammed Rustom August 21, 1980 Toronto, Canada |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Toronto |
| Influences | Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Michael Elias Marmura, William Chittick, Todd Lawson |
| Academic work | |
Notable works | The Triumph of Mercy: Philosophy and Scripture in Mulla Sadra
Inrushes of the Heart: The Sufi Philosophy of 'Ayn al-Qudat |
| Website | www |
Mohammed Rustom (born 1980) is a Canadian Islamic studies scholar. He is professor of Islamic thought and Global Philosophy at Carleton University (College of the Humanities and Department of Philosophy) 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]
Rustom was born in 1980 in Toronto, and was raised in Richmond Hill.[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]
