Thomas Ballantine Irving (1914-2002), scholar
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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.
Biography
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,