Bio of Akbar S. Ahmed

Dr. Akbar S. Ahmed (ahmed@islam-democracy.org) is the Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies and professor of International Relations at American University in Washington, DC. He is the author of many books on contemporary Islam, including Discovering Islam: Making Sense of Muslim History and Society, Postmodernism and Islam: Predicament and Promise, and Islam Today: A Short Introduction to the Muslim World. His "Jinnah Quartet," a four-part project on Pakistan's founding father, M.A. Jinnah, has won numerous international awards. Dr. Ahmed has been a visiting professor and the Stewart Fellow in the Humanities at Princeton University and held appointments at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, Harvard University, and Cambridge University.



Dr. Ahmed has held senior positions in Pakistan, including the Pakistan High Commissioner (Ambassador) to the United Kingdom. He was appointed Trustee of the World Faiths Development Dialogue by the Archbishop of Canterbury. Dr. Ahmed has made frequent media appearances in the United Kingdom and the United States. He has appeared on “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” CNN, MSNBC, NBC Nightly News and BBC. Dr. Ahmed has been interviewed by The New York Times, The Washington Post, People magazine, and Newsweek, among other publications. He has written articles/reviews for The Guardian, The Independent, New Perspectives Quarterly, American Political Science Review, Christian Science Monitor and The Washington Post. He is a regular syndicated columnist for the Religion News Service.

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