There’s good reason to believe that there will be staying power to the West’s belated discovery of Islam. At this year’s convention, now in progress in Denver, no single title seems to have clearly ...

At the beginning of September 2017, I arrived in Washington, DC to visit my father’s friend Ambassador Akbar Ahmed, the Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies at American University, and discuss my ...

It is a marvel of the globalised world we live in, that there is a major cultural festival in the Caribbean named after a Muslim hero, who lived and died oceans and continents away and many centuries ...

Challenged by a request from his father that he initially felt neither disposed nor capable of fulfilling, Akbar Ahmed came to this book only after he had found his voice both as an anthropologist and ...