# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wilfred-cantwell-smith
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:57:56.455Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wilfred-cantwell-smith"
name: "Wilfred Cantwell Smith"
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description: "Wilfred Cantwell Smith, was a Canadian Islamicist, comparative religion scholar, and Presbyterian minister. He was the founder of the Institute of Islamic Studies at McGill University in Quebec and later the director of Harvard University's Center for the Study of World Religions. The Harvard University Gazette said he was one of the field's most influential figures of the past century. In his 1962 work The Meaning and End of Religion he notably questioned the modern sectarian concept of religion."
tagline: "Canadian academic (1916–2000)"
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birthDate: "1916-07-21"
deathDate: "2000-02-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  55
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump