Muhammad Legenhausen
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Hajj Muhammad Legenhausen was born in 1953 in New York. Brought up as a Catholic, he abandoned religion shortly after beginning his academic studies at the State University of New York at Albany. In 1979, he became acquainted with Islam through Muslim students at Texas Southern University, where he taught from 1979 to 1989. He recited the shahadah in 1983, the same year he received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Rice University, Houston.
In 1985, he had the opportunity to visit Iran. In 1989, he was invited to teach philosophy of religion at the Islamic Iranian Academy of Philosophy in Tehran. He is presently teaching at the Imam Khomeini Education and Research Institute in Qom, where he teaches Western philosophy and religious studies, and is a consultant and thesis advisor at the University of Qom and at the Religious Studies Center of Qom. He has written a number of books and articles in periodicals published in English and Persian.
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- Islam and Religious Pluralism, London: Al-Hoda, 1999, ISBN 1-870907-03-5 (translated into Persian, Arabic and Indonesian)
- Contemporary Topics of Islamic Thought, Tehran: Al-Hoda, 2000, ISBN 964-472-230-2; (translated into Persian)
- Ayatullah Misbah Yazdi's Philosophical Instructions (translation with Azim Sarvdalir), Binghamton University & Brigham Young University, 1999, ISBN 1-883058-75-9.
- Jesus through the Qur'an and Shi'ite Narrations (translation with Muntazir Qa'im), Tahrike Tarsile Qur'an, Inc., 2005, ISBN 1-879402-14-9.
