Charles Joseph Adams: Difference between revisions

| birth_date = <!--{{birthApril date24, |YYYY|MM|DD}}-->1924

| birth_place = [[Houston, Texas]]

| death_date = <!--{{deathd-da|March date23, and2011|April age24, |YYYY|MM|DD |YYYY|MM|DD1924}} (death date then birth date)-->

| death_place = [[Mesa, Arizona]]

Adams was born in [[Houston, Texas]], in 1924. His undergraduate education was at [[Baylor University]], which was interrupted when he volunteered to serve in the Air Force during World War II as an airborne radio operator and mechanic. After the war he returned to Baylor to earn his B.A.{{citation needed|date=June 2017}}

His long career at [[McGill University]] began when he joined the faculty in 1952. Adams the historian of religion turned his head more particularly toward Islam when, under a Ford Foundation Grant, he studied Islam in Pakistan. He returned to McGill to join the new Institute of Islamic Studies, and later served as its director from 1964–801964 to 1980.<ref>{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kN9a-QJlY1QC&dq=director&pg=PA1 |title = Islamic Studies Presented to Charles J. Adams|isbn = 9004092218|last1 = Adams|first1 = Charles Joseph|last2 = Hallaq|first2 = Wael B.|last3 = Little|first3 = Donald Presgrave|year = 1991}}</ref>{{citation needed|date=June 2017}}

Adams died on March 23, 2011, in [[Mesa, Arizona]].<ref name="ssdi"/>

[[Category:Academic staff of McGill University faculty]]

[[Category:PeopleAcademics from Houston]]