There has never been an America without Muslims. Yet in our current political climate, there is ignorance and fear about Muslims. In this conversation, Amir Hussain will talk about the contributions that American Muslims have made to what it means to be American.

Speaker: Dr. Amir Hussain
Moderator: Dr. Rose Aslan

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Dr. Amir Hussain is Professor of Theological Studies at Loyola Marymount University, the Jesuit university in Los Angeles. He teaches courses on world religions, with a focus on Islam and contemporary Muslim societies in North America. He is a fellow of the Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities. In 2016 he received a fellowship to the Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies at the University of Southern California. Also, he served as the editor of the Journal of the American Academy of Religion, the premier scholarly journal for the study of religion. His most recent book is Muslims and the Making of America, published in 2016 by Baylor University Press. He has published over 50 book chapters and scholarly articles about religion.
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Dr. Rose Aslan teaches courses on global religions, the Abrahamic traditions in comparative focus and Islam at the Calfornia Lutheran University. She is an interfaith activist well as a scholar of Islam and religious studies. Her research focuses on the construction of sacred space, ritual, and pilgrimage in medieval Iraq and other medieval and contemporary Islamic contexts, but she also studies different aspects of sacred spaces around the world from different traditions. Her current research examines the ritual practice of Muslims in post-9/11 United States.
Dr. Aslan lived and studied in Egypt for five years and has also lived in Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Armenia and has travelled extensively throughout the Middle East, North Africa, and Europe. She is fluent in Arabic and can get by in Persian and French. External Event Url
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