Background
Poonawala, Ismail Kurbanhusein was born on January 7, 1937 in Godhra, Gujarat, India. Came to the United States, 1964. Son of Kurbanhusein Fidahusein and Sakina Sultanali (Sakina) Poonawala.
Near Eastern language educator
Poonawala, Ismail Kurbanhusein was born on January 7, 1937 in Godhra, Gujarat, India. Came to the United States, 1964. Son of Kurbanhusein Fidahusein and Sakina Sultanali (Sakina) Poonawala.
Master of Arts, Bombay University, 1959. Master of Arts, Cairo University, 1964. Doctor of Philosophy, University of California at Los Angeles, 1968.
Assistant professor, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, 1968-1971;
research associate, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1971-1974. Author: Biobibliography of Ismaili Literature, 1977. Translator History of al-Tabari: Last Years of the Prophet, 1990.
Editor Al-Urjuza al-Mukhtara, 1970. Author/editor Al-Sultan al-Khattab, 1967.
Married Oumayma Hasan Ali Ahmad, January 6, 1981. 1 child, Qays Hasanayn.