Ahmad Shafaat

Ahmad Shafaat is a mathematician, and currently, professor, Department of Decision Sciences and Management Information System, John Molson School of Business at Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec.

Born in Pakistan, Shafaat completed his undergraduate and graduate studies at the University of Punjab in Lahore and specialized in Mathematics. He later received his Ph.D in Mathematics from the Australian National University in Canberra in 1968.

Following that he travelled to Canada and became a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Winnipeg in Manitoba. After spending some more time in teaching and researching at Université Laval in Quebec and King Abdul Aziz University in Saudi Arabia, Shafaat moved back to Canada and settled in Montreal.

A noted scholar in his own field , Shafaat is also a distinguished student of Comparative Religion and has authored a number of books and pamphlets about Islam, Christianity, and Judaism. He is recognized by many as a Biblical theologian. With the collobaration of his intellectual partner Irshad Ahmad Ansari who specializes in Textual Criticism of the Bible, Shafaat also published a very useful and critical study of the analysis of Matthew 12:40, known as the Sign of Jonah.

Ahmad Shafaat and Irshad Ansari are considered by some as the leading Muslim scholars of Christianity and Judaism in North America; though they are not very well known in academic circles. Furthermore, they are also the strong proponents of Dialogue and Understanding between cultures and communities. A web based author, Shafaat as well contributes to various Islamic topics. His opinions on the Shari'ah punishment for apostacy and adultery violate the scholarly consensus on these issues.

Publications (Incomplete)

Articles

* [http://www.themodernreligion.com/pol/turk-sec.html Sad Story of Turkish Secularism, The] ; Al-Ummah, Montreal, Canada in 1985.
* [http://www.themodernreligion.com/women/aishah-shafaath.html Aishah...The Mother of the Faithful] ; Al-Ummah, Montreal, Canada in 1985
* [http://muslim-canada.org/finance.html Islamic Rules Concerning Financial Dealings] ; Al-Ummah, Montreal, Canada 1988
* [http://www.islamicperspectives.com/ReviewClintonBennett.htm A review of: Clinton Bennett, In Search of Muhammad and In Search of Jesus] ; Islamic Perspectives, May, 2002
* [http://www.mukto-mona.com/Articles/hoodbhoy/book_review_islam_science.htm A review of: Pervez Hoodbhoy, "Islam and Science: Religious Orthodoxy and Battle for Rationality"] (2005?)
* [http://www.crescentlife.com/spirituality/living_character_of_islamic_tradition.htm Living Character of Islamic Tradition, The] ; Al-Ummah, Montreal, Canada in 1985
* [http://www.zawaj.com/articles/children_shafaat.html Mistakes Committed by Parents Raising Children in the West] ; Al-Ummah, Montreal, Canada in 1986
* [http://www.muslimaccess.com/articles/misc/aggression_of_iraq.asp Aggression on Iraq as an Emotional Experience for Muslims]
* [http://www.islamherald.com/asp/explore/dawah/commanding_good_forbidding_evil.asp Commanding Good and Forbidding Evil] Al-Ummah, Montreal, Canada in 1987
* [http://www.islamicperspectives.com/RibaIntro.htm What is Riba?] Jan. 2005
* [http://www.islam786.org/tasawwuf.htm Way of Islamic Tasawwuf, The] ; Al-Ummah, Montreal, Canada in 1985
* [http://www.weneedtounite.com/marriage_in_islam.htm Marriage in Islam: Considered from a Legal Point of View] ; Al-Ummah, Montreal, Canada in 1984
* [http://www.muslimwedding.org/yart5.html When the Wife is Unhappy with the Husband] ; Al-Ummah, Montreal, Canada in 1984
* The Abrahamic Ummah, in: Islam in a World of Diverse Faiths, ed. Dan Cohn-Sherbok, 188-200; MACMILLAN, London, UK, in 1991 ISBN 0-333-52612-0

Monographs

*Shafaat, Ahmad: The Gospel According to Islam : Written in Commemoration of the Beginning of the Fifteenth Century of the Islamic Era. New York: Vantage Press, 1979 ISBN 0533041422
* Shafaat, Ahmad. "The Question of Authenticity and Authority of the Bible". 1st ed. Montreal : Nur Media Services, 1982. (Series: Missionary Christianity and Islam, Pt. 1)
* Shafaat, Ahmad. "Concept of God". St-Laurent, Quebec : Nur al-Islam Foundation, jointly published with the American Society for Education and Religion, 1984. (Series: Missionary Christianity and Islam, Pt. 2)
* Shafaat, Ahmad. "Islam and its Prophet: A Fulfilment of Biblical Prophecies" St.Laurent, Quebec : Nur al-Islam Foundation jointly published with the American Society for Education and Religion, 1984.
* Shafaat, Ahmad; Ansari, Irshad A. "The sign of Jonah : Is it Applicable to Jesus" St.Laurent, Quebec : Nur al-Islam Foundation, 1984?

Books

* Islam, Christianity and the State of Israel: As Fulfillment of Old Testament Prophecy. Indianapolis, Indiana: American Trust Publications, 1989.

Unpublished Works

* "Some Remarks and Results on Relational and Algebraic Structures". Ph.D. Dissertation, Australian National University, Canberra, 1968.

External links

* [http://www.islamicperspectives.com Ahmad Shafaat's Homepage]