The Triumph of Mercy: Philosophy and Scripture in Mulla Sadra
Dr. Mohammed Rustom, Associate Professor in the College of the Humanities, has been awarded the 21st Book of the Year Prize in Iran for his book The Triumph of Mercy: Philosophy and Scripture in Mulla Sadra (SUNY, 2012).
Iran’s Book of the Year Prize is widely considered to be one of the most prestigious book prizes in the Middle East. Previous foreign recipients include such illustrious names as Carl Ernst, Harald Motzki, William Chittick, and Robert Morrison.
“I am indeed pleased to receive such an honour,” explains Rustom. “But, I am even more pleased by the fact that a book in English, published by a major American University Press and written by a Canadian-born non-Iranian, would be conferred this distinction. This, as I see it, is yet another indicator of just how serious and globally engaged scholarly circles in Iran actually are.”
Rustom will attend the award ceremony in Tehran, which is to be held in early February 2014.
An interview with Dr. Rustom on The Triumph of Mercy can be found HERE
Mohammed Rustom Biography
Mohammed Rustom
Mohammed Rustom is Associate Professor of Islamic Studies at Carleton University. He obtained his PhD in the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations at the University of Toronto in 2009, specializing in Islamic Thought, Quranic Studies, and Persian Literature. After coming to Carleton in 2009, Professor Rustom also served as a Research Associate at the Tehran-based Iranian Institute of Philosophy in 2010.
Professor Rustom’s research focuses on Sufism, Islamic Philosophy & Theology, and Quranic exegesis (tafsir). His award-winning book The Triumph of Mercy: Philosophy and Scripture in Mulla Sadra (State University of New York Press, 2012) brings together all of these disciplines in an attempt to outline the profound manner in which they interact with one another in the writings of a key seventeenth-century Muslim thinker.
Dr. Rustom is the lead editor of an anthology of Professor William Chittick’s writings entitled In Search of the Lost Heart: Explorations in Islamic Thought (State University of New York Press, 2012). He is also an Assistant Editor of the much-anticipated HarperCollins Study Quran (Editor-in-Chief, Professor Seyyed Hossein Nasr).
Currently, Professor Rustom is writing a book on the famous twelfth-century Sufi martyr ‘Ayn al-Qudat Hamadani.
Dr. Rustom maintains an active lecture schedule, both in North America and abroad, and conducts public workshops on themes related to Islam and Muslims.