Product Description
This groundbreaking book begins a dialog between Islam and the West with a frank and instructive exchange of ideas between American non-Muslim experts on the Muslim world and Muslim activists and intellectuals. The inclusion of American Muslims as well as American non-Muslim and Muslims from the East gives these round table discussions a scope and depts not found elsewhere.
About the Author
Co-editor Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad served as moderator of the series of discussion published here. Raised in America since he was five days old, the Palestinian refugee with a B.A. in Astronomy from Harvard and a Ph.D. in Astrophysics from the University of Arizona is founder of the Minaret of Freedom Institute, an Islamic policy research institute that typifies what Newsweek magazine calls the "New Islam." Author of Sighn in the Heavens and editor of Islam and the Discovery of Freedom, Dr. Ahmad teaches a course on "Religion and Progress" in the University of Maryland honors program and a course on "Islam and Development" at Johns Hopkins University's School for Advanced International Studies.
Co-editor Ahmed Yousef was born in Occupied Territories of Palestine in 1950. He received a B.S. in mechanical engineering from Al-Azhar University, Cairo, and masters degrees from Colorado State University and the University of Missouri. During seven years as a journalist, Dr. Yousef published hundreds of articles and papers in the leading magazines and journals of the Muslim world. Since completing his Ph.D. at Columbia State University he has written such titles as Political Islam and Contemporary Thought, Hamas: Passing Fancy or True Alternative?, and Ahmed Yassin: His Legacy of Rebillion. Dr. Yousef is the Executive Director of the United Associates for Studies and Research and editor of the journal of Middle East and Islamic Affairs.
