Ismail al-Faruqi

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Isma'il Raji al-Faruqi ( Arabic إسماعيل راجي الفاروقي/ Ismāʿīl Rāǧī al-Fārūqī; born 1921 in Jaffa , Mandate Palestine ; died 1986 (murdered) in Wyncote , Pennsylvania, USA) was an Islamic scholar, comparative religious scholar and a personality of Islam in North America. Together with Taha Jabir al-Alwani (1935-2016) he founded the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT), which sees itself as a think tank for the Muslim Brotherhood , with its headquarters in Herndon , Virginia in the United States , a suburb of Washington, DC

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Ismail al-Faruqi was born in Jaffa , Palestine, in 1921 . He taught Islamic studies at the Institute of Islamic Studies at McGill University ( Montréal ), the Central Institute of Islamic Research ( Karachi ), the Institute of Higher Arabic Studies of the League of Arab States ( Cairo ) and at Syracuse University . He was Professor of Islamic Studies / Religious Studies at Temple University in Philadelphia (Pennsylvania, USA). He studied at the American University of Beirut , at Indiana University and at Harvard University . After receiving his doctorate, he worked at Azhar University in Cairo (in the field of Islam) and at McGill University in Montréal (in the field of Christianity and Judaism). The IIIT in the United States will promote the 'Islamization of Knowledge' ( Islamization of knowledge ), d. H. a scientific thought based on the ethics of Islam , on which Faruqi also wrote a treatise (see also Abdul Hamid Abu Sulayman ). He was one of the senior fellows of the Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought (Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought), Jordan . He was murdered in 1986 at his home in Wyncote, Pennsylvania, along with his wife, Lois Lamya al-Faruqi, by a black Muslim who confessed and sentenced to death but died of natural causes in prison in 1996.

Works (selection)

  • Islam and other faiths. Leicester. The Islamic Foundation and the International Institute of Islamic Thought , 1998.
  • The cultural atlas of Islam. Macmillan et al., New York et al. 1986.
  • Historical atlas of the religions of the world. Macmillan et al., New York et al. 1974.
  • Tawhid: Its Implications for Thought and Life. UNITED STATES.
  • Islamization of Knowledge , Herndon, USA.
  • Islam and the Problem of Israel. United States
  • Judaism, Christianity, Islam: Trialogue of the Abrahamic Religions. Dagyeli, Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-924320-49-7 .
  • The Path of Da'wah in the West. UK Islamic Mission , London, 1986.

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References and footnotes

  1. ↑ cf. Kyle Shideler & David Daoud ("The Muslim Brotherhood's Think Tank")
  2. ↑ SUB GÖ
  3. ↑ aalalbayt.org ( Memento of the original from June 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.aalalbayt.org
  4. ↑ Inside the Capitol (Joseph Louis Young dies of natural causes on death row) The Patriot News, March 11, 1996

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SURNAME Faruqi, Ismail al-
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Faruqi, Isma'il Raji al-; Faruqi, Ismaʿil Raji al-; Fārūqī, Ismāʿīl Rājī al; Fārūqī, Ismāʿīl R. al-; Faruqi, Isma'il R. Al-; Faruqi, Ismail Raji al-; Ismāʿīl Rāǧī al-Fārūqī; Faruqi, Isma'il Ragi Al-; Faruqi, IR Al-; Faruqi, IR; Fārūqī, Isma'īl Rājī al; Ismail al-Taji al-Farouki; إسماعيل راجي الفاروقي (Arabic)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Islamic scholar and comparative religion scholar
DATE OF BIRTH 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Jaffa , Palestine
DATE OF DEATH 1986
Place of death Wyncote , Pennsylvania, USA