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Mahmoud Ayoub was born into a devout Muslim family in 1935 at Ayu Qana (South Lebanon). He grew up in an environment where Christians and Muslims participated in each others’ daily life, in weddings, funerals and festivals. As a child, his parents sent him to a British Presbyterian missionary school, an experience which changed his whole life. As he remembers, ‘at the school I had a Christian upbringing, so my life was kind of influenced by both my parents’ deep piety and the missionary zeal of my school … the school authorities did not really have an educational programme for us, what they wanted to do mainly was to make us Christians and of course they did and that created a lot of tension between me and my family and particularly my father.’1 The upbringing over the years in the Presbyterian Church convinced Ayoub that he needed to save the souls of his parents. In return they ‘wanted to make sure that I was a Muslim and part of the family, and also to save my soul’.2 It was the spiritual insight of his mother that looked beyond these immediate complexes; she understood that her son was going through ‘an experience and he will return’.
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Mahmoud Ayoub, ‘Roots of Muslim-Christian Conflict’, The Muslim World Vol. LXXIX, No. 1 (January 1989), p. 30.
Mahmoud Ayoub, ‘Towards an Islamic Christology: An Image of Jesus in Early Shi’i Muslim Literature’, The Muslim World, Vol. LXVI, No. 3 (July 1976), p. 166.
Mahmoud Ayoub, ‘Towards an Islamic Christology II: The Death of Jesus, Reality or Delusion’, The Muslim World, Vol. LXX, No. 2 (April 1980), p. 94.
Mahmoud Ayoub, ‘Jesus the Son of God: A Study of the Terms Ibn and Walad in the Qur’an and Tafsir Tradition’ in Y.Z. Haddad, and W. Haddad, (eds.), Christian-Muslim Encounters ( Gainsville: University Press of Florida, 1995 ), p. 66.
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Siddiqui, A. (1997). Mahmoud Ayoub (1935—). In: Christian-Muslim Dialogue in the Twentieth Century. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230378230_5
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