Aisha Gray Henry
Aisha Gray Henry, also known as Virginia Gray Henry Blakemoor, is an American writer, Islamic scholar, filmmaker and editor.
Biography
[edit]Gray Henry earned her B.A. in art history and world religions from Sarah Lawrence College and her M.A in education from the University of Michigan.[1] She also studied for ten years at Al-Azhar.[2] In 1981, she helped to establish the Islamic Texts Society in Cambridge.[3][1]
Gray Henry is the founder and director of the Islamic publishing house Fons Vitae.[4][5] Grey Henry and Fons Vitae have worked on making the works of al-Ghazali accessible to children.[4] In 2006, Gray Henry arranged for an interfaith meeting between the Dalai Lama and Muslim scholars.[1]
Gray Henry is an art historian and scholar of religion who taught at the Dalton School, Fordham and Cambridge Universities.[1] Gray Henry is a co-founder and board member of the Thomas Merton Center Foundation where she arranges meetings on the works of Thomas Merton.[6]
Filmography
[edit]- Beads of Faith: Pathways to Meditation and Spirituality Using Rosaries, Prayer Beads and Sacred Words[7] available as a book and film.
- Islam: A Pictorial Essay
- Cairo: 1001 Years of Art and Architecture
- Death and Transformation: The Personal Reflections of Huston Smith[6]
- The Ornaments of Lhasa: Islam in Tibet[8]
Works
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- Understanding Islam and the Muslims
- The Life of the Prophet Mohammad, credited as Aisha Governeur with Leila Azzam
- Water: Its Spiritual Significance, edited by Elena Lloyd-Sidle and Virginia Gray Henry Blakemore
- Contributor to Fons Vitae Thomas Merton Series
- Contributor to Praeger series, Voices of Islam
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d "biography". Islamic resource bank. Retrieved 5 July 2017.
- ^ "The American Muslim (TAM)". theamericanmuslim.org. Retrieved 2022-04-16.
- ^ "About us". Islamic Texts Society. Retrieved 5 July 2017.
- ^ a b "Aisha Gray Henry". WISE Muslim Women. 2020-10-09. Retrieved 2022-04-16.
- ^ "Aisha Gray Henry". The Muslim 500. 28 May 2018. Retrieved 2022-04-16.
- ^ a b "Gray Henry-Blakemoore". Center for Interfaith Relations. Retrieved 2022-04-16.
- ^ "Beads of Faith". Fons Vitae. Retrieved 5 July 2017.
- ^ Henry-Blakemore, Gray (1997), Islam in Tibet: the ornaments of Lhasa, Fons Vitae (Firm), Fons Vitae, OCLC 41908792, retrieved 2024-02-01
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