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Michael Elias Marmura was a Palestinian scholar of Islamic philosophy who taught at the University of Toronto for 36 years. He received his PhD from the University of Michigan and specialized in thinkers like Ibn Sina and al-Ghazali. The University of Toronto established the Michael E. Marmura Lecture Series in his honor after his death in 2009.

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Michael Elias Marmura

Michael Elias Marmura was a Palestinian scholar of Islamic philosophy who taught at the University of Toronto for 36 years. He received his PhD from the University of Michigan and specialized in thinkers like Ibn Sina and al-Ghazali. The University of Toronto established the Michael E. Marmura Lecture Series in his honor after his death in 2009.

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Michael Elias Marmura

Michael Elias Marmura ( November 11, 1929 - September 17, 2009) was a Palestinian scholar of Islamic
philosophy and Professor Emeritus of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations at the University of Toronto.
He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.[1]

Contents
Life and career
Death
Legacy
Works
References

Life and career


Michael Elias Marmura was born on November 11, 1929 in Jerusalem. He completed his early education in
Jerusalem, and after becoming well-versed in the literary tradition of his native Arabic, he moved to the
United States to further his studies. He earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin
before attending graduate school at the University of Michigan. Marmura received his PhD in Islamic
philosophy in 1959, under the direction of George Hourani, a well-known scholar of Islamic philosophy
and theology. In the fall of 1959, he accepted a position at the University of Toronto's Department of Near
Eastern Studies (later known as the Department of Middle East and Islamic Studies, and now known as the
Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations). He retired from the profession in 1995 after thirty-
six years of teaching Islamic thought and Arabic literature at the University of Toronto, where he also
served as Chair of the Department.[1]

Death
Marmura died in Antigonish on the evening of September 17, 2009.[1]

Legacy
The University of Toronto has established the Michael E. Marmura Lecture Series in Arabic Studies in his
honor.[2]

Works
Probing in Islamic Philosophy: Studies in the Philosophies of Ibn Sina, al-Ghazali, and
Other Major Muslim Thinkers
The Metaphysics of The Healing (Brigham Young University - Islamic Translation Series)
The Incoherence of the Philosophers (Translator)
References
1. Rustom, Mohammed (2010). "IN MEMORIAM: Michael E. Marmura 1929-2009" (https://doi.o
rg/10.1017%2Fs0957423909990130). Arabic Sciences and Philosophy. Cambridge
University Press (CUP). 20 (1): 177–184. doi:10.1017/s0957423909990130 (https://doi.org/1
0.1017%2Fs0957423909990130). ISSN 0957-4239 (https://www.worldcat.org/issn/0957-42
39).
2. Hanssen, Jens (2021). "A Laudatio of Professor Michael E. Marmura, F.R.S.C" (https://www.
nmc.utoronto.ca/news-events/michael-e-marmura-lecture-series-arabic-studies/laudatio-prof
essor-michael-e-marmura). Department of Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations. Retrieved
2021-09-02.

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