Charles Joseph Adams

{{Short description|American academic and professor of religion}} {{Multiple issues| {{more citations needed|date=June 2017}} {{COI|date=June 2017}} }} {{Use mdy dates|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox scientist | honorific_prefix = | name =Charles Joseph Adams | honorific_suffix = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | image = | image_size = | image_upright = | alt = | caption = | birth_name =  | birth_date = April 24, 1924 | birth_place = Houston, Texas | death_date = {{death date and age|March 23, 2011|April 24, 1924}} | death_place = Mesa, Arizona | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates =  | other_names = | siglum = | pronounce = | citizenship =  | nationality = | fields = Islamic studies | workplaces = McGill University | patrons = | education = Baylor University | alma_mater = | thesis_title = | thesis_url = | thesis_year = | doctoral_advisor = | academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = Abdolhadi Haeri | notable_students = | known_for = | influences = | influenced = | awards = | author_abbrev_bot = | author_abbrev_zoo = | spouse =  | partner =  | children = | parents = | father = | mother = | relatives = | signature =  | signature_alt = | website =  | footnotes = }} '''Charles Joseph Adams''' (April 24, 1924 – March 23, 2011)<ref name="ssdi">''Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014''. Social Security Administration.</ref> was an American academic and professor of religion. He was emeritus Professor of Islamic Studies at McGill University and for nearly 20 years the Director of the Institute of Islamic Studies there.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://rgstudies.blogspot.com/2011/02/charles-j-adams.html|title=Charles J. Adams|website=rgstudies.blogspot.com|access-date=2016-10-04}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://reporter-archive.mcgill.ca/Rep/r2917/emeriti.html|title=McGill Reporter|website=reporter-archive.mcgill.ca|access-date=2016-10-04}}</ref>

==Life== 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 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| publisher=BRILL }}</ref>{{citation needed|date=June 2017}}

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

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