About

John Andrew Morrow received his Honors Bachelor, Master’s, and Ph.D. from the University of Toronto, where he studied French, Spanish, Indigenous, and Islamic Studies. In addition to his academic studies, he has completed over four decades of traditional Islamic seminary studies.

Professor Morrow has worked as a university professor for over three decades. He has taught for the University of Toronto, Park University, Northern State University, Eastern New Mexico University, the University of Virginia’s prestigious Semester at Sea Program, and Ivy Tech Community College. Professor Morrow was a research fellow at the University of Chicago, Purdue University, and Harvard University. After serving as an Assistant and Associate Professor, he was unanimously appointed to the rank of Full Professor of Foreign Languages in 2014.

Professor Morrow received a Student Impact Award from Northern State University and was recognized as a Master Teacher and a Distinguished Faculty Member by Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana in 2012 and 2013. He received an Interfaith Leadership Award from the Islamic Society of North America in 2016 and a Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition from the US House of Representatives in 2017. In 2022, the Interfaith Institute of Long Island recognized him as one of the most notable American Muslim leaders and scholars, along the likes of Malcolm X, Warith Deen Mohammed, Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Sherman Jackson, and other leaders and scholars.

Professor Morrow has authored a vast body of scholarly works in numerous fields. He has published hundreds of scholarly articles and dozens of academic books, including The Covenants of the Prophet Muhammad with the Christians of the World (2013), translated into Spanish, Italian, Arabic, and Indonesian. The primary documents on which the book is based, the Six Covenants of the Prophet Muhammad with the Christians of His Time, has been translated into over a dozen languages. Morrow’s Covenants of the Prophet with the Christians of the World has been cited over a thousand time.