Umar Faruq Abd-Allah (born Wymann-Landgraf; born 1948) is an American Islamic theologian, author, spiritual guide, and educator.[1]
Biography edit
Umar Faruq Abd-Allah was born in 1948 in Columbus, Nebraska to a Protestant family. He was raised in Athens, Georgia, where both of his parents worked as tutors at the University of Georgia.[2] He received his PhD on the origins of Islamic law from the University of Chicago.[1] Abd-Allah began his career as a teacher of Arabic and Islamic Studies and taught at different institutions in the United States and Canada. He left America in 1982 to teach Arabic in Spain. Two years later, he was appointed to King Abdul-Aziz University's Department of Islamic Studies in Jeddah, where he conducted courses on Islamic studies and comparative religion for many years. He studied under numerous traditional scholars during his stay in Jeddah. In 2000, he returned to the United States to serve the Nawawi Foundation in Chicago, where he had spent over a decade. From 2002 to 2013, he taught Islamic Studies at Darul Qasim Institute in Chicago.[3] He has been considered to fall into the Islamic Neo-Traditionalist movement.
Works edit
- A Muslim in Victorian America: The Life of Alexander Russell Webb (2006)[4]
- Mālik and Medina: Islamic Legal Reasoning in the Formative Period (2013)[5]
- The Islamic struggle in Syria (1983)
- Islam and the Cultural Imperative (2004)
See also edit
References edit
- ^ a b "Umar Faruq Abd-Allah". Renovatio. 2021-05-04. Retrieved 2021-05-25.
- ^ "Abd-Allah, Umar F." Religious Studies Center. Retrieved 2021-05-25.
- ^ "Umar Faruq Abd-Allah". The Muslim 500. Retrieved 2021-05-25.
- ^ Reviews of A Muslim in Victorian America: The Life of Alexander Russell Webb:
- Curtis IV, Edward E. (2008). "Umar F. Abd‐Allah, A Muslim in Victorian America: The Life of Alexander Russell Webb". The Journal of Religion. 88 (2). University of Chicago Press: 263–264. doi:10.1086/587604. ISSN 0022-4189.
- Sedgwick, Mark (2009). Nova Religio, pp. 119–120
- McCloud, A. B. (2007-02-01). "A Muslim in Victorian America: The Life of Alexander Russell Webb". Journal of Islamic Studies. 19 (1). Oxford University Press (OUP): 146–148. doi:10.1093/jis/etm068. ISSN 0955-2340.
- Scopino, A. J. (2008). "A Muslim in Victorian America: The Life of Alexander Russell Webb". Religious Studies Review. 34 (3). Wiley: 220. doi:10.1111/j.1748-0922.2008.00308_1.x. ISSN 0319-485X.
- Turan, Ş . (2011). Umar F. Abd-Allah, A Muslim in Victorian America: The Life of Alexander Russell Webb. Osmanlı Araştırmaları, 37 (37), 252-260
- AMELI, SAIED R. (2007). "Ummar F. Abd-Allah, A Muslim in Victorian America: The Life of Alexander Russell Webb". Journal of American Studies. 41 (3). Cambridge University Press (CUP): 684–685. doi:10.1017/s0021875807004082. ISSN 0021-8758. S2CID 145460601.
- ^ Reviews of Mālik and Medina: Islamic Legal Reasoning in the Formative Period:
- Oßwald, Rainer (2018). "Umar F. Abd-Allah Wymann-Landgraf, Mālik and Medina: Islamic Legal Reasoning in the Formative Period". Der Islam. 95 (2). Walter de Gruyter GmbH: 650–651. doi:10.1515/islam-2018-0046. ISSN 1613-0928. S2CID 166181578.
- El Shamsy, Ahmed (2014). Ilahiyat Studies, Volume 5, Number 1
- Syed, Mairaj. Islamic Law and Society 22(3):301-307
- Dean, J (2014) Revue d'Histoire et de Philosophie religieuses Année 2014 94-4 p. 489
- Lucas, Scott C. (2017). Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 137, No. 3 (July–September 2017), pp. 627-629