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Ibrahim
M. Abu-Rabi‘
Professor
of Islamic Studies, Co-Director
Ph.D.
(Temple University)
Contact
Info:
email:
aburabi@hartsem.edu
phone: (860) 509-9530
fax: (860) 509-9539
Curriculum
Vitae | Online
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Professor Abu-Rabi‘ is a Palestinian who was born in Nazareth,
Galilee. He holds dual citizenship in the U. S. and Israel and has
received degrees from Birzeit University (in Birzeit, West Bank, Palestine),
the University of Cincinnati, and Temple University, Philadelphia.
Dr.
Abu-Rabi‘ has served as Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies
in Virginia Commonwealth University's Department of Philosophy and
Religious Studies and has held a Rockefeller Fellowship at the Center
for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.
He
is currently professor of Islamic Studies, Co-Director of the Macdonald
Center for the Study of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations at
Hartford Seminary and co-editor of The Muslim World. He has a special
interest in the study and practice of interfaith dialogue between
the Islamic and Christian religious traditions. Dr. Abu-Rabi‘
specializes in issues of contemporary Islamic thought, particularly
on religion and society, and mysticism. He is fluent in Hebrew,
Arabic, and English.
Dr.
Abu-Rabi‘ travels widely in the Far East, Middle East and
the West as a consultant and lecturer. He has published articles
and reviews in a variety of American, Middle Eastern and Indian
journals.
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