Akbar Ahmed

Journey Into America

The Challenge of Islam

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Nearly seven million Muslims live in the United States today, and their relations with non-Muslims are strained. Many Americans associate Islam with figures such as Osama bin Laden, and they worry about ""homegrown terrorists.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Brookings Institution
• Seitenzahl: 530
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. November 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 139mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 668g
• ISBN-13: 9780815722175
• ISBN-10: 0815722176
• Artikelnr.: 33774284

Autorenporträt

Akbar Ahmed is currently the Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies at the American University in Washington, D.C., the First Distinguished Chair of Middle East and Islamic Studies at the U.S. Naval Academy, and a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. He has taught at Princeton, Harvard, and Cambridge Universities and has been called "the world's leading authority on contemporary Islam" by the BBC. He is a frequent media contributor, the author of several books (including Journey into Islam and Polity Press's Islam under Siege), a playwright ("Noor" and "The Trial of Dara Shikoh"), and a published poet.