Akbar Ahmed

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RECENT MEDIA:

**See Stanley Kurtz's take on Akbar Ahmed's work in the tribal areas of Pakistan in  "Tribes of Terror"  from the Claremont Review of Books.

**Frankie Martin and Hailey Woldt respond with "Good Anthropology, Bad Islam? The Pitfalls of Steamrolling the Muslim World".

"Encountering Islam", a 12 lecture series on Islam, now  available from Now You Know Media. Lectures on the follwing topics:
 
  • Introduction: Encountering Islam
  • The Quran and the Prophet of Islam
  • The Five Pillars of Islam
  • Shia/Sunni Differences and the Sufis of Islam
  • Women in Islam
  • Tribes in Islam
  • The Legacy of Arab Dynasties
  • Andalusia: The Time of Harmony
  • The Three Great Muslim Empires
  • The Muslim World under Western Colonization
  • Modernity and Muslim Leadership
  • Conclusion: The Way Forward

    • Akbar Ahmed on PBS,  "This is America". Watch the interview here.

    Akbar Ahmed signs A Common Word Between Us and You, a letter signed by 138 Muslim scholars, clerics and intellectuals to declare the common ground between Christianity and Islam. Text of the letter found at http://www.acommonword.com/
     Listen to an NPR interview of Akbar Ahmed about this "Global Handshake" here.