Mahmoud M. Ayoub
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Mahmoud Mustafa Ayoub (1935–2021) was a prominent Lebanese shi'a scholar and professor of religious and inter-faith studies.
He was the Honorary Faculty Associate of Shi'a Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations and Co-Director at the Duncan Black MacDonald Center for the Study of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations for Hartford Seminary at Georgetown University.
Life and Education
Mahmoud Mustafa Ayoub was born in 1935 at Ain Qana (South Lebanon). He attended a British Presbyterian missionary school for the blind as a child. Mahmoud Ayoub describes his experience in this school as 'at the school I had a Christian upbringing, so my life was kind of influenced by both my parents’ deep piety and the missionary zeal of my school ...the school authorities did not really have an educational program for us, what they wanted to do mainly was to make us Christians and of course, they did and that created a lot of tension between me and my family and particularly my father'[1].
Mahmoud M. Ayoub received a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from the American University of Beirut in 1964. Then, he moved to the United States and received a Masters of Arts in Religious Thought from the University of Pennsylvania in 1966. Professor Ayoub got his Doctorate in the History of Religion from Harvard University in 1975.
During his studies, he returned to Islam.[2]
Mahmoud M. Ayoub died in Montreal on 31 October 2021[3].
Career
Mahmoud M. Ayoub was the Honorary Faculty Associate of Shi'a Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations and Co-Director at the Duncan Black MacDonald Center for the Study of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations for Hartford Seminary at Georgetown University.
He was Professor and Director of Islamic Studies at the Department of Religion at Temple University in Philadelphia between 1988 and 2008. Also, during the same time, Ayoub was Adjunct Professor at Hartford Seminary in Connecticut, a Research Fellow at the Middle East Center at the University of Pennsylvania and a Tolson visiting professor at the Pacific School of Religion at the Berkeley University.
Dr. Ayoub, also, taught at San Diego State University, the University of Toronto and McGill University.
Notes
- ↑ Siddiqui, Christian Muslim Dialogue in the Twentieth Century, p. 97.
- ↑ Resources on Faith, Ethics and Public Life; Mahmoud Ayoub
- ↑ Islamic Scholar, Mahmoud Ayoub Passes Away
References
- Siddiqui, Ataullah. Christian Muslim Dialogue in the Twentieth Century. Palgrave Macmillan: 1997.
- Islamic Scholar, Mahmoud Ayoub Passes Away . Accessed: 2021/01/01.