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''' Thomas Ballantine Irving / Al-Hajj Ta'lim Ali Abu Nasr''' (1914-2002) was an Canadian Muslim scholar, active in Canada and the United States. | ''' Thomas Ballantine Irving / Al-Hajj Ta'lim Ali Abu Nasr''' (1914-2002) was an Canadian Muslim scholar, active in Canada and the United States. Thomas Ballantine Irving was born in Preston, Ontario (now Cambridge) in 1914. He wad educated at the University of Toronto (BA), and McGill University (MA), and earned his PhD in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton University in 1940. He embraced Islam in the early 1950s. He taught at McGill University, Princeton University, the University of Minnesota, and the University of Tennessee, and fro 1981 to 1986 served as the dean of the American Islamic College in Chicago. He died on September 24, 2002, | ||
==Works== | |||
==Works | |||
====Books==== | ====Books==== | ||
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*[[The Quran: The First American Version (1985 Irving), book]] | *[[The Quran: The First American Version (1985 Irving), book]] | ||
== | ==Biography== | ||
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._B._Irving Wikipedia] | *[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._B._Irving Wikipedia] | ||
[[Category:Scholars|Irving]] | [[Category:Scholars|1914 Irving]] | ||
[[Category:Canadian|1914 Irving]] | [[Category:Canadian|1914 Irving]] | ||
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[[Category:Early Islamic Scholars|1914 Irving]] | [[Category:Early Islamic Scholars & Authors|1914 Irving]] | ||
[[Category:Early Islamic Scholars-- | [[Category:Early Islamic Scholars & Authors--Canadian|1914 Irving]] | ||
[[Category:Early Islamic Scholars-- | [[Category:Early Islamic Scholars & Authors--American|1914 Irving]] | ||
Latest revision as of 12:10, 16 May 2015
Thomas Ballantine Irving / Al-Hajj Ta'lim Ali Abu Nasr (1914-2002) was an Canadian Muslim scholar, active in Canada and the United States. Thomas Ballantine Irving was born in Preston, Ontario (now Cambridge) in 1914. He wad educated at the University of Toronto (BA), and McGill University (MA), and earned his PhD in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton University in 1940. He embraced Islam in the early 1950s. He taught at McGill University, Princeton University, the University of Minnesota, and the University of Tennessee, and fro 1981 to 1986 served as the dean of the American Islamic College in Chicago. He died on September 24, 2002,