Mohammed Rustom (born 1980) is a Canadian

Islamic studies Islamic studies is the academic study of Islam, which is analogous to related fields such as Jewish studies and Quranic studies. Islamic studies seeks to understand the past and the potential future of the Islamic world. In this multidiscipli ...

scholar. He is professor of

Islamic thought Islamic philosophy is philosophy that emerges from the Islamic tradition. Two terms traditionally used in the Islamic world are sometimes translated as philosophy—''falsafa'' (), which refers to philosophy as well as logic, mathematics, and p ...

Carleton University Carleton University is an English-language public university, public research university in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Founded in 1942 as Carleton College, the institution originally operated as a private, non-denominational evening college to se ...

and Executive Director of the Tokat Institute for Advanced Islamic Studies. His research interests include Arabic and Persian Sufi literature,

Islamic philosophy Islamic philosophy is philosophy that emerges from the Islamic tradition. Two terms traditionally used in the Islamic world are sometimes translated as philosophy—''falsafa'' (), which refers to philosophy as well as logic, mathematics, and p ...

, Qur’anic exegesis, translation theory, and cross-cultural philosophy.

Biography

Rustom was born in 1980 in

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, Canada, into a Muslim family, and was raised in

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. His family, originally from

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, moved to Canada in the 1970s and are ethnically

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s with origins in

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. He completed his undergraduate studies in the humanities at the

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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

. Rustom studied Islamic philosophy under notable scholars such as

Seyyed Hossein Nasr Seyyed Hossein Nasr (born April 7, 1933) is an Iranian Americans, Iranian-American academic, philosophy, philosopher, theology, theologian, and Ulama, Islamic scholar. He is University Professor of Islamic studies at George Washington University. ...

, Todd Lawson,

William Chittick William Clark Chittick (born June 29, 1943) is an American philosopher, writer, translator, and interpreter of classical Islamic philosophical and mystical texts. He is best known for his work on Rumi and Ibn 'Arabi, and has written extensively ...

, and

Michael Elias Marmura Michael Elias Marmura (November 11, 1929 - September 17, 2009) was a Palestinian scholar of Islamic philosophy and Professor Emeritus of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations at the University of Toronto. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of ...

, acknowledging their significant influence in shaping his interest in Islamic philosophy and Sufism.

Works

* ''Journal of Islamic Philosophy: A Special Issue on Mulla Sadra'' (2010) * ''The Triumph of Mercy: Philosophy and Scripture in Mulla Sadra'' (SUNY Press, 2012) (Winner of Iran's 21st International Book of the Year Prize) * ''In Search of the Lost Heart: Explorations in Islamic Thought'' (co-ed.) (SUNY Press, 2012) * ''Sufi Metafiziği'' (Nefes, 2014) * ''The Study Quran: A New Translation and Commentary'' (assistant ed.) (HarperOne, 2015) * ''The Condemnation of Pride and Self-Admiration'' (Islamic Texts Society, 2018)Reviews of ''The Condemnation of Pride and Self-Admiration'': * * * ''Mysticism and Ethics in Islam'' (co-ed.) (AUB Press, 2022) * ''Journal of Sufi Studies: Special Issue on Sufi Texts in Translation'' (co-ed.) (Brill, 2022) * ''The Essence of Reality: A Defense of Philosophical Sufism'' (NYU Press, 2022) * ''Islamic Thought and the Art of Translation: Texts and Studies in Honor of William C. Chittick and Sachiko Murata'' (Brill, 2023) * ''From the Divine to the Human: Contemporary Islamic Thinkers on Evil, Suffering, and the Global Pandemic'' (co-ed.) (Routledge, 2023) * ''Inrushes of the Heart: The Sufi Philosophy of 'Ayn al-Qudat'' (SUNY Press, 2023) * ''A Sourcebook in Global Philosophy'' (Equinox, 2025)

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