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Dr. Muhammad Hedayetullah
Dr. Muhammad Hedayetullah has an energetic and dynamic academic life: he started his academic life in Muslim religious education. He first attended the Arabic-Islamic institution, ...view moreDr. Muhammad Hedayetullah has an energetic and dynamic academic life: he started his academic life in Muslim religious education. He first attended the Arabic-Islamic institution, Madrasah-i-'Alia, Dhaka, Bangladesh, whence he obtained his first Masters degree in Islamic Tradition (hadith, M. M.--mawlana).Then switching to the English system of education, he obtained his B. A. (Hon.) and a second Masters degree in Islamic History and Culture from Dhaka University, Bangladesh.
With a Ford Foundation Scholarship, he studied at the Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, whence he obtained his third Masters degree in Islamic Studies. Then changing the course of his academic line, he moved to Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, where, with a scholarship of the Government of Ontario, he studied at McMaster University and obtained his PhD. degree in Comparative Religion (World Religion).
The author has a teaching career of about 38 years beginning in different colleges in Bangladesh as a lecturer in Islamic History and Culture. Before coming to the McGill University, he was a Research Associate at the Institute of Islamic Research, Karachi, Pakistan. As a teaching Associate, he taught Comparative Religion at McMaster University. He was a Lecturer of Islamic Studies at the Lancaster University, England. Then back in Canada, he joined as a Research Fellow at the Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University. Finally, he taught for 25 years at Vanier College, Montreal, as a Professor of Comparative Religion and Humanities.
To his credit, there are some books and articles published in scholarly journals. His last book entitled Unity and Diversity in World's Living Religions: A Compact Survey was published by Trafford Publishing, United States of America, in 2010.
Dr. Muhammad Hedayetullah may be reached at his e-mail address hedayet_kutir@yahoo.com and via telephone/fax at 1-514-747-6695. You can also visit his Facebook page atview less