Islam and Other Faiths

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Islam and Other Faiths

A collection of Ismail Al-Faruqi's articles written over a span of two decades, which deal directly with Islam and other faiths, and Christianity and Judaism in particular.

Collected in this volume are the late Ismail al-Faruqi's articles written over a span of two decades which deal with Islam and other faiths, Christianity and Judaism in particular.

The book provides a good cross-section of al-Faruqi's contribution to the study of comparative religion and covers a wide spectrum of inter-religious issues, including commonality and differences between Islam, Christianity and Judaism, Muslim and non-Muslim relations, and the issue of Mission and Dawah.

A fascinating study by an engaging and challenging activist-scholar of our time.

At the dawn of the twenty-first century, the relationship of Islam to other faiths has never been more important. Globalization and significant presence and force of Islam in the Muslim world and the West make civilizational dialogue an imperative. Ismail al-Faruqi provides a model to be emulated. Professor John Esposito, Georgetown University, U.S.A. Published in association with the International Institute of Islamic Thought.

About The Author

Faruqi was born in Palestine in 1921. He graduated from the American University of Beirut in philosophy. He joined the civil service in British Mandate Palestine in 1945, and later became the last Governor of Galilee.

The occupation of Palestine brought him to the United States. There he obtained two masters degrees in philosophy from Indiana and Harvard Universities, and completed his PhD in 1952 ‘On Justifying the Good: Metaphysics and Epistemology of Value’. In search of the classical Islamic heritage, he studied at Al-Azhar from 1954 to 1958. A year later, at the invitation of Professor Cantwell Smith, he joined the Faculty of Divinity, at McGill University, Montreal, where he studied Judaism and Christianity and produced his major academic work, Christian Ethics.

For two years, 1961–63, on the advice of Dr Fazlur Rahman, he joined the Institute for Islamic Research, Karachi. On his return to America he joined, as visiting professor, the Divinity School at the University of Chicago. He accepted an Associate Professor’s post in Syracuse University in the Department of Religion, where he developed an Islamic Studies programme.

Professor Ismail Raji al Faruqi was a co-founder of International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) and Association of Muslim Social Scientists (AMSS). He was also the founder of the Islamic Studies program in the Department of Religion at Temple University. A distinguished scholar of Islam and comparative religions, trained at Indiana University and McGill University, Professor Faruqi authored, with his wife Dr. Lamya al Faruqi – a distinguished scholar of Islamic art – the seminal work titled The Cultural Atlas of Islam. His book on Christian Ethics was only one of many outstanding books and publications that spoke of his command of the subject. Ismail and Lamya were both murdered in their home in Philadelphia on May 26, 1986 in circumstances that have never been resolved.

From 1968 until his death on 17 May 1986, he was professor in the Department of Religion at Temple University, where he also established an Islamic Studies section. He was the first Muslim scholar in America who devoted himself to the study of comparative religion and Islam.