Andrew Lawrence Rippin, (16 May 1950 in

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– 29 November 2016) was a

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Islamic studies scholar. Rippin was Professor of History and Dean of the Faculty of

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, Canada. Major academic fields of Andrew Rippin were the history of the formative period of

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in the classical period of Islam. He was the author of many works on Qur'anic Studies as well as the widely respected ''Muslims - Their Religious Beliefs and Practices'', now in its fourth edition (2012). In 2006, he was made a Fellow of the

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. Some of the works of Andrew Rippin are related with the research on Ibadism. He died on 29 November 2016 in

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at the age of 66. In Memoriam Andrew Rippin (1950-2016) Cambridge University Press (PDF)
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Works

* Andrew Rippin, Jan Knappert (eds.), ''Textual Sources for the Study of Islam'', Totowa, N.J. : Barnes & Noble, 1987. * Andrew Rippin (ed.), ''Approaches to the History of the Interpretation of the Qur'an'', Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1988. * Andrew Rippin, ''Muslims: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices'', New York : Routledge, 1990. * Andrew Rippin (ed.), ''The Qur'an: Formative Interpretation'', Aldershot: Ashgate, 1999. * Andrew Rippin (ed.), ''The Qur'an, Style and Contents'', Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001. * Andrew Rippin, ''The Qur'an and its Interpretative Tradition'', (Variorum Collected Studies), Aldershot, Hampshire; Burlington, VT: Ashgate/Variorum, 2001. * Norman Calder, Jawid Mojaddedi, Andrew Rippin (eds.), ''Classical Islam: A Sourcebook of Religious Literature'', New York : Routledge, 2003. * Andrew Rippin, ''Muslims: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices''. 2005. * Andrew Rippin (ed.), ''Defining Islam: A Reader'', London; Oakville, CT: Equinox, 2007. * Andrew Rippin (ed.), ''The Islamic world'', New York: Routledge, 2010. * Andrew Rippin, Jawid Mojaddedi (eds.), ''The Wiley Blackwell Companion to the Qur'an'', Chichester, W. Sussex: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2017.

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