Bridging the Great Divide: Teaching the Abrahamic Faiths

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• Professor Akbar Ahmed (American University, CMJR)
• Thursday 22 November 2012, 17:00-19:00
• Garden Room, Library Building, St. Edmunds College.

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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.

This talk is part of the Woolf Institute Highlights series.

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