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Andrew Lawrence Rippin, FRSC (16 May 1950 in London, England – 29 November 2016)[1] was a Canadian Islamic studies scholar.<ref>https://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199698646.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199698646-e-41</ref> 

=University member=
Rippin was Professor of History and Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.

=Academic fields=
Major academic fields of Andrew Rippin were the history of the formative period of Islam and the interpretation of the Qurʾān in the classical period of Islam.[2] He was the author of many works on Qur'anic Studies as well as the widely respected Muslims - Their Religious Beliefs and Practices, now in its fourth edition (2012). In 2006, he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Some of the works of Andrew Rippin are related with the research on Ibadism.[3] 

He died on 29 November 2016 in Victoria, British Columbia at the age of 66.[4][5] 

=Works=
•	Andrew Rippin, Jan Knappert (eds.), Textual Sources for the Study of Islam, Totowa, N.J. : Barnes & Noble, 1987.

•	Andrew Rippin (ed.), Approaches to the History of the Interpretation of the Qur'an, Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1988.

•	Andrew Rippin, Muslims: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices, New York : Routledge, 1990.

•	Andrew Rippin (ed.), The Qur'an: Formative Interpretation, Aldershot: Ashgate, 1999.

•	Andrew Rippin (ed.), The Qur'an, Style and Contents, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001.

•	Andrew Rippin, The Qur'an and its Interpretative Tradition, (Variorum Collected Studies), Aldershot, Hampshire; Burlington, VT: Ashgate/Variorum, 2001.

•	Norman Calder, Jawid Mojaddedi, Andrew Rippin (eds.), Classical Islam: A Sourcebook of Religious Literature, New York : Routledge, 2003.

•	Andrew Rippin, Muslims: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices. 2005.

•	Andrew Rippin (ed.), Defining Islam: A Reader, London; Oakville, CT: Equinox, 2007.

•	Andrew Rippin (ed.), The Islamic world, New York: Routledge, 2010.

•	Andrew Rippin, Jawid Mojaddedi (eds.), The Wiley Blackwell Companion to the Qur'an, Chichester, W. Sussex: John Wiley & Sons, 

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