Aisha Gray Henry

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Aisha Gray Henry, also known as Virginia Gray HenryBlakemoor, is an American writer, Islamic scholar, filmmaker and editor.

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Biography

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] Gray 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

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "biography". Islamic resource bank. Retrieved 5 July 2017.
  2. ↑ "The American Muslim (TAM)". theamericanmuslim.org. Retrieved 2022-04-16.
  3. ↑ "About us". Islamic Texts Society. Retrieved 5 July 2017.
  4. 1 2 "Aisha Gray Henry". WISE Muslim Women. 2020-10-09. Retrieved 2022-04-16.
  5. ↑ "Aisha Gray Henry". The Muslim 500. 28 May 2018. Retrieved 2022-04-16.
  6. 1 2 "Gray Henry-Blakemoore". Center for Interfaith Relations. Retrieved 2022-04-16.
  7. ↑ "Beads of Faith". Fons Vitae. Retrieved 5 July 2017.
  8. ↑ 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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