Abstract

On the 22nd November CMJR Visiting Fellow Professor Akbar Ahmed will deliver a Woolf Institute lecture entitled “Bridging the Great Divide: Teaching the Abrahamic Faiths”. Former Ambassador Professor Akbar Ahmed is the author of over a dozen award-winning books, including Discovering Islam, and Journey into Islam: The Crisis of Globalization. His book Journey into America: The Challenge of Islam (Brookings Press, 2010) culminated in the full length documentary Journey into America, and won the American Book Award for 2011. On September 11, 2011, Ahmed gave a sermon as part of the memorial service commemorating the decade since 9/11 at the Sunday service at St. Alban’s Church, the National Cathedral, Washington, D.C.

Professor Ahmed is currently working on a study which examines the role of America and the conflict between tribe and state in the Muslim world, to be published by Brookings Press in 2012.