Abstract

On the 8th November CMJR Visiting Fellow Professor Akbar Ahmed will deliver a CMJR Highlight lecture entitled “Islam in America: Challenges and Opportunities”. The author of Journey into America; the Challenge of Islam, Professor Akbar Ahmed has taught at Princeton, Harvard, and Cambridge University and has been called “the world’s leading authority on contemporary Islam” by the BBC . He has advised myriad US agencies and organizations on Islam and foreign policy and is the current Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies at American University in Washington DC; the First Distinguished Chair of Middle East and Islamic Studies at the US Naval Academy in Annapolis; and a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution.