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Speaker Biography
Dr. J. Dudley Woodberry Professor of Islamic Studies and Dean Emeritus of the School of World Mission (now the School of Intercultural Studies) Education:
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Biographical Information:
J. Dudley Woodberry is professor of Islamic studies at Fuller Seminary
and is considered one of the foremost Christian scholars of Islam.
Dr. Woodberry served as a teacher in Pakistan, a pastor in Afghanistan
and Saudi Arabia, and has ministered in at least 35 predominantly Muslim
nations around the world. From 1993 to 1999, Woodberry served as dean
of the School of World Mission, now School of Intercultural Studies,
at Fuller Seminary in Pasadena, CA.
He has served as consultant on the Muslim world to President Carter,
the State Department, U.S. AID, and other U.S. government agencies.
He has also been active in the Zwemer Institute of Islamic Studies
and served
as coordinator and acting senior associate of the Muslim track of the
Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization.
In addition to writing numerous articles and book chapters, Woodberry has edited Missiological Education for the 21st Century: The Book, the Circle, and the Sandals, edited with Van Engen and Elliston (1996), Muslims and Christians on the Emmaus Road (1989), and Where Muslims and Christians Meet: Area Studies (1989). His newest work, Muslim and Christian Reflections on Peace, edited with Osman Zumrut and Mustafa Koylu, is due out in 2005. Recent teaching and lecturing trips have taken him to Korea, Indonesia, Denmark, Norway, and Pakistan.
With all his responsibilities and outside interests, Woodberry is still renown for his sense of humor and his concern for the students in the School of Intercultural Studies. Many international students especially have found in him a friend and an advocate, as well as a mentor.
Areas of Expertise, Research, Writing, and Teaching:
Islam and Christian
missions, Muslim faith and life, Muslim evangelism, folk Islam, current
trends in Islam
