Jean-Mohammed Abd-el-Jalil
Moroccan Roman Catholic priest (1904–1979)
Jean-Mohammed Abd-el-Jalil, , born Mohammed ben Abd-el-Jalil (Arabic: جون محمد بن عبد الجليل) (17 April 1904 – 24 November 1979) was a Moroccan Catholic priest, a convert from Islam, and Islamicist. He is considered a pioneer of interreligious dialogue in the Catholic Church.
Biography
Early life
Mohammed ben Abd-el-Jalil was born 17 April 1904, in Fez, Morocco. He was born to a religious noble family of Andalusian descent, his father serving as a high-ranking government official. Abd-el-Jalil would later speak of his family being "poor and honorable." He was one of ten children, of whom only three survived to adulthood. His brother, Omar, served as a minister of education and agriculture in newly independent Morocco. At the age of nine years old in 1913 or 1914, Abd-el-Jalil accompanied his family on Hajj.
Education and conversion to Christianity
Abd-el-Jalil received an Islamic education in Moulay Idriss Zerhoun at the University of al-Qarawiyyin. As a young Muslim, Abd-el-Jalil was a disciple of the teachings of the Egyptian Salafi and modernist, Muhammad Abduh. He then received a Catholic secondary education at École Charles de Foucauld in Rabat, a Franciscan high school, with the insistence of his father that his son's religious identity be respected.
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