[1][2] His research interests include Arabic and Persian Sufi literature, Islamic philosophy, Qur’anic exegesis, translation theory, and cross-cultural philosophy.

[3] Rustom was born in 1980 in Toronto, Canada, into a Muslim family, and was raised in Richmond Hill, Ontario.

He completed his undergraduate studies in the humanities at the University of Toronto in 2004, earning an Hon.

BA in Islamic studies with a focus on Arabic and Persian, as well as philosophy.

[2] Rustom studied Islamic philosophy under notable scholars such as Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Todd Lawson, William Chittick, and Michael Elias Marmura, acknowledging their significant influence in shaping his interest in Islamic philosophy and Sufism.