Thomas McElwain

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Thomas McElwain is a Doctor of Philosophy who has lectured at the University of Turku in Finland and has been a member of the faculty of the Department of Comparative Religion, as docent, at the University of Stockholm since 1982. He is fluent in many languages, including biblical Hebrew and Arabic, and is one of the few remaining speakers of West Virginian Mingo.

A Shi'a Twelver Muslim (though he still considers himself Baptist) Islamic scholar who specializes in Islamic Christianity studies, he has written a series of works that compare Native American religion, Christianity, Judaism and Islam.

He was given the name "Ali Haydar" by Turkish Kizilbash in 1988, and he adopted it and has since used it interchangeably with his original name.[1][2]

[edit] Bibliography

• Islam in the Bible (2002) ISBN 0-7541-0217-3
• Our Kind of People: Identity, Community and Religion on Chestnut Ridge. A Study of Native Americans in Appalachia (1981) ISBN 91-20-04726-6
• Mythological Tales and the Allegany Seneca: A Study of the Socio-Religious Context of Traditional Oral Phenomena in an Iroquois Community (1978) ISBN 91-22-00181-6

[edit] See also

• List of Islamic scholars
• Islamic Christianity studies

[edit] External links

• http://www.globalresearch.org/view_article.php?aid=300498285
• The Use of the Mingo Language in the Last Half of the Twentieth Century
• http://www.al-ahari.com/Dawoodi.html [3]
• http://www.al-islam.org/islaminthebible/2.htm