Mahmoud Mustafa Ayoub[4] (June 1, 1935 – October 31, 2021) was a Lebanese Islamic scholar and professor of religious and inter-faith studies.
Mahmoud Ayoub was born into a devout Muslim family on June 1, 1935, at Ain Qana (South Lebanon), a small town with an integrated religious population.
[6] In 1998, Mahmoud Ayoub helped develop and start a graduate Master of Arts-level program in Muslim-Christian relations and comparative religion for the Centre for Christian-Muslim Studies at the University of Balamand in Lebanon.
"[8] At a lecture in 2013 at Oakwood University in Huntsville, Alabama, Ayoub said at the heart of the Islamic moral system is love, the basis for peace.
"[12] On 24 March 2015, the Peace Islands Institute brought together Mahmoud M. Ayoub and Neset Ulusal of Quinnipiac University for a discussion entitled "Muslim Voices Against Extremism".
[13] In a 2015 article Mahmoud Ayoub's work was mentioned as helping develop a scholarly approach to inter-faith relations between Islam and Christianity.
[15] In 2008, Mahmoud Ayoub was instrumental in persuading the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) to donate $1.5 million to the Temple University Seminary chair office.
After the university seemed unable to publicly respond with an open acceptance or rejection of the donation, the IIIT withdrew its offer in December of that year.