Bio of M.A. Muqtedar Khan - Center for the Study of Islam & Democracy (CSID)

Bio of M.A. Muqtedar Khan

M. A. Muqtedar Khan (muqtedar.khan@islam-democracy.org) is winding up his Ph.D in International Relations and Political Theory from Georgetown University. His major includes International Relations Thought, International Law and Political Economy and American Foreign Policy. His minors include Political Philosophy and Islamic Political Theory. Muqtedar Khan has a bachelors degree in Electronic and Computer Engineering, an MBA in Strategic Management, and an MA in International Studies. His dissertation is a treatise on the Philosophy of action and its relation to identity and rationality.

Muqtedar Khan is presently the Managing Editor of the American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences, the General Secretary of the Association of Muslim Social Scientists, a Director of the Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy. He is also a founder of the Contemporary Islamic Philosophy conferences.

Muqtedar Khan is a prolific writer and has published research articles in journals such as the Security Dialogue, Middle East Policy, Middle East Affairs, Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences, Intellectual Discourse, The Muslim World, The Diplomat, Islamica, Islamic Horizons, and The Message. He has contributed many book chapters and dozens of articles in journals published in the U.S., U.k., Canada, Norway, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, and
India. He has spoken widely on Islam and on International Affairs.

Muqtedar Khan is also the founder and editor of Ijtihad, "an e-zine on Islam and global affairs that seeks to promote freedom of thought (hurriyah al-ra'y) and independent thinking (ijtihad) among Muslims everywhere."

Since September 1999, Khan has been a visiting lecturer in political science at Washington College in Maryland.

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