Gary Legenhausen
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Gary Carl (Muhammad) Legenhausen (Born 1953 New York) is an American theologian associated with Mohammad Taghi Mesbah Yazdi, Iran's main advocate of fundamentalism.
Collaborating with Mesbah Yazdi, he organized several philosophy discussion programs on IRIB, supporting Islamic fundamentalism. He converted to Islam and lives now in Iran. He wrote a book entitled The Expansion and Contraction of Abdolkarim Soroush where he criticized Abdolkarim Soroush, an Iranian activist for Islamic pluralism.[1]
He hold a Ph.D. in philosophy from Rice University (1983). Since then he has been studying Islam and teaching Western philosophy and Christianity in "Imam Khomeini Education and Research Institute" in Iran.
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 converted to Islam in 1983.
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- Mesbah Yazdi, M.T., Philosophical Instructions (translation by Gary Legenhausen & Azim Sarvdalir), Binghamton University & Brigham Young University, 1999, ISBN 1-883058-75-9.
- Jesus through the Qur'an and Shi'ite Narrations (translation by Gary Legenhausen & Muntazir Qa'im), Tahrike Tarsile Qur'an, Inc., 2005, ISBN 1-879402-14-9.
- 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)
