New Trends in Asia by Dr. Mumtaz Ahmad_part_2.flv

Dr. Mumtaz Ahmad is Professor of Political Science at Hampton University in Virginia, U.S.A., an HEC Foreign Professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the International Islamic University (II-U-I), Islamabad, and the Executive Director of the Iqbal International Institute for Research & Dialogue (IRD), of the IIU-I since 2007. Currently he is holding the position of President of International Islamic University, Islamabad.

He received an MA in Political Science from the University of Karachi in Pakistan, an MA in Development Administration from the American University of Beirut in Lebanon, and his Doctorate in Political Science from the University of Chicago.

He has been an Associate Professor at the National Institute of Public Administration in Karachi and a Foreign Policy Research Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. He has taught at Chicago State University, Columbia College, International Islamic University, Kuala Lumpur and Foreign Service Institute, US Department of State, Washington, DC. He was a Senior Fulbright Research Fellow in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, and a United States Institute of Peace Fellow in Sudan, Pakistan and Malaysia. Dr Ahmad has also been a Fellow of the American Institute of Bangladesh Studies and the American Institute of Pakistan Studies.

He was a member of the "Islam and Social Change Project" at the University of Chicago, and the "Fundamentalism Project" of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was a senior consultant to the "Muslims in American Public Square Project," and "The State of Islamic Studies in American Universities" project of Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. All four projects resulted in a series of publications.

Dr. Ahmad is the current President of South Asian Muslim Studies Association (SAMSA), an affiliate of the Association of Asian Studies (AAS), and Vice-President of Center for Islam and Public Policy (CIPP), Washington, D.C. He is co-editor of the journal "Studies in Contemporary Islam," published by the Youngstown State University, Youngstown, Ohio, and a member of the editorial advisory boards of three other international professional journals.

His areas of academic and research interests are: comparative politics of the Middle East and South Asia; the U.S. and the Islamic World; Islamic political thought and institutions; comparative politics of contemporary Islamic movements; politics and sociology of the madrassa education; and ethnicity and the state. Dr. Ahmad has published nine books, numerous book chapters, and encyclopedia and journal articles on politics of South Asia and the Middle East and the politics of Islamic resurgence. Dr. Ahmad has recently completed a 3-year extensive study of the madrasa education in Bangladesh and Pakistan.

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