M. A. Muqtedar Khan

Mohammed Abdul Muqtedar Khan
Born1966 (age 57–58)
Hyderabad, India
NationalityAmerican
Alma materGeorgetown University
OccupationAcademic
Websiteijtihad.org/muqtedarkhan

Muhammad Abdul Muqtedar Khan (born 1966) is an Indian American academic and a professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Delaware. Khan is the founding director of the Islamic Studies Program at the university. He chaired the Department of Political Science and was Director of International Studies at Adrian College. He was a senior non-resident Fellow at the Brookings Institution from 2003 to 2008. He was a senior fellow of the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding from 2011-2014 and is a Senior Fellow of the Center for Global Policy since 2014. He earned his Ph.D. in international relations, political philosophy and Islamic political thought from Georgetown University in May 2000.[citation needed]

Of Indian origin, Khan is a proponent of change in the treatment of women in some Islamic societies, he identifies as traditional and liberal. Khan advocates independent thinking, and says that it is the inability of Muslims to sustain a dialogue with time and text which sometimes makes Islamic teachings appear anachronistic or intolerant.[1]

Khan has testified at hearings hosted by the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee[2] and the US House Armed Forces Committee.[3] A fellow of the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding, he has been the president, vice-president and general secretary of the Association of Muslim Social Scientists. In October 2008, Khan received the Sir Syed Ahmed Khan Award for service to Islam from Aligarh Muslim University.[citation needed]

He maintains two websites which archive his articles: Ijtihad[4] and Glocaleye.[5] Khan writes for the On Faith Forum for the Washington Post and Newsweek.[6]

  1. ^ "Soft Voice, Strong Message". Ijtihad.org. Retrieved 2012-11-22.
  2. ^ Testimony before the Committee on Foreign Relations Archived 2011-08-18 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ [1] Archived January 5, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ Ijtihad
  5. ^ Glocaleye
  6. ^ On Faith Forum of Washington Post and Newsweek Archived 2010-04-20 at the Wayback Machine