Ismail al-Faruqi, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Ismail al-Faruqi

Palestinian academic

Date of Birth: 01-Jan-1921

Place of Birth: Yafa, Lahij Governorate, Yemen

Date of Death: 27-May-1986

Profession: university teacher, philosopher

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Isma?il Raji al-Faruqi (Arabic: ??????? ???? ????????? January 1, 1921 – May 27, 1986) was a Palestinian-American philosopher, widely recognised by his peers as an authority on Islam and comparative religion.
He spent several years at Al-Azhar University in Cairo, then taught at several universities in North America, including McGill University in Montreal.
He was Professor of Religion at Temple University, where he founded and chaired the Islamic Studies program.
Al-Faruqi was also the founder of the International Institute of Islamic Thought.
He wrote over 100 articles for various scholarly journals and magazines in addition to 25 books, of the most notable being Christian Ethics: A Historical and Systematic Analysis of Its Dominant Ideas.
He also established the Islamic Studies Group of the American Academy of Religion and chaired it for ten years.
He served as the vice-president of the Inter-Religious Peace Colloquium, The Muslim-Jewish-Christian Conference and as the president of the American Islamic College in Chicago. Al-Faruqi and his wife, Lois Lamya al-Faruqi, were stabbed to death in their home in Wyncote, Pennsylvania on May 27, 1986.