Fr. Michael D. Calabria, O.F.M., Ph.D, is a Franciscan Friar of Holy Name Province. 他在中东和伊斯兰世界的经历始于30多年前，
as an Egyptology student at Johns Hopkins University (BA, 1983) and Brown University (MA, 1985), he performed archaeological work in Egypt.
After studying library science at Columbia University (MLS, 1988年)，并在纽约市担任学术图书管理员, 他于1996年加入方济会，并在华盛顿神学联盟学习.Div., MA, 2003).
As a friar, he lived in Cairo in 2001-02, ministering in a leprosarium; and between 2003-2011 he spent many summers in Egypt teaching English at a Coptic-Catholic seminary in Cairo.
Fr. Michael began teaching at St. Bonaventure University in 2003. After initiating the program in Arabic, 他开设并教授了一系列伊斯兰研究课程，其中包括阿拉伯语和伊斯兰研究辅修课程.
He left St. 为了完成他在埃克塞特大学阿拉伯和伊斯兰研究所的伊斯兰研究博士学位，Bonaventure于2012年毕业, UK. 在此期间，他在乔治城大学担任牧师
积极参与阿尔瓦利德·本·塔拉勒穆斯林-基督教理解中心和当代阿拉伯研究中心的项目. In April 2015 he successfully defended his dissertation, an analysis of the Egyptians in the Qur’an, Islamic
Exegesis and extra-canonical texts.
Fr. Michael has travelled extensively in the Islamic world, and has visited and conducted research in Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan Syria, Oman, Turkey and India. 他广泛地谈论伊斯兰教和伊斯兰文化的各个方面，包括古兰经，
伊斯兰精神，艺术和建筑，以及基督教和穆斯林的关系.
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