Martin Forward is a British, Methodist Christian lecturer and author on religion and Professor of History at Aurora University, Illinois. He has taught Islam at the Universities of Leicester, Bristol and Cambridge, and had spent a period of time in India where he was ordained into the Church of South India. He was also a senior tutor and lecturer in Pastoral and Systematic Theology (Wesley House, Cambridge), and was a member of the Cambridge University Faculty of Divinity. Currently, he is the Executive Director of Aurora University's Wackerlin Center for Faith and Action and the Helena Wackerlin Professor of Religion,[1] and has participated in numerous Interfaith dialogues. He has authored a number of books related to Islam and Christianity, such as "Muhammad: A Short Biography" and "Jesus: A Short Biography" respectively.
Books
[edit]- Muhammad: A Short Biography (1998). Oxford: Oneworld. ISBN 1-85168-131-0.
- The Failure Of Islamic Modernism?: Syed Ameer Ali's Interpretation Of Islam (1999). Peter Lang Publishing. ISBN 3-906762-38-6.
References
[edit]- ^ Aurora University faculty Archived 2006-09-03 at the Wayback Machine