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Akbar Ahmed


Born
Allahabad, India
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Islam, Conflict, Geopolitics


Akbar Salahuddin Ahmed, is a Pakistani-American academic, author, poet, playwright, filmmaker and former diplomat. He currently holds the Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies and is Professor of International Relations at the American University in Washington, D.C.Immediately prior, he taught at Princeton University as served as a Visiting Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He also taught at Harvard University and was a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Anthropology. Ahmed was the First Chair of Middle East and Islamic Studies at the US Naval Academy, Annapolis, and a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. In 2004 Ahmed was named District of Columbia Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundat ...more

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The Thistle and the Drone: ...
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Journey into Islam: The Cri...
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Islam Today: A Short Introd...
3.52 avg rating — 101 ratings — published 1998 — 8 editions
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Jinnah, Pakistan and Islami...
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Journey into America: The C...
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Discovering Islam
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Postmodernism and Islam
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Islam Under Siege: Living D...
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Living Islam: From Samarkan...
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Islam 101: History, Beliefs...
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“The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.”
― Akbar Ahmed, Journey into America: The Challenge of Islam
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“If change is to come-as it must-it needs to be from within an Islamic framework and introduced by Muslims who have credibility within their own society.”
― Akbar Ahmed, Journey into Islam: The Crisis of Globalization
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