Screen Shot 2013-12-18 at 11.39.09 PMDr. Muqtedar Khan is Professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Delaware. He researches and teaches Islam, Governance and International Relations. He earned his Ph.D. in International Relations, Political Philosophy, and Islamic Political Thought, from Georgetown University in May 2000.

From 2017-2019 he was the Academic Director of the State Department’s National Security Institute (SUSI) and from 2019 onwards he is the Academic Director of the State Department’s American Foreign Policy Institute.

He founded the Islamic Studies Program at the University of Delaware and was its first Director from 2007-2010.

Dr. Khan is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Policy since 2016. He was Fellow with the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding from 2001-2016. He was a Senior Nonresident Fellow with the Brookings Institution [2003-2008] and a Fellow of the Al-Waleed Center at Georgetown University [2006-2007]. He has been the President, Vice President and General Secretary of the Association of Muslim Social Scientists.

He is the author of Islam and Good Governance: A Political Philosophy of Ihsan (Palgrave, 2019). Islam and Good Governance has been recognized as an all time best books on political philosophy. He also authored American Muslims: Bridging Faith and Freedom (Amana, 2002), Jihad for Jerusalem: Identity and Strategy in International Relations (Praeger, 2004). He has edited Islamic Democratic Discourse (Lexington Books, 2006) and Debating Moderate Islam: The Geopolitics of Islam and the West (University of Utah Press, 2007).

Dr. Khan frequently comments on BBC, CNN International, FOX and VOA TV, Bridges TV, NPR and other radio and TV networks. His political commentaries appear regularly in newspapers in over 20 countries. He has lectured in North America, East Asia, Middle East and Europe . Dr. Khan is from Hyderabad in India. He is married to Reshma and has a son Rumi, and a daughter Ruhi.

His articles on Islam and American Muslims can be read at www.ijtihad.org and his commentaries on global politics can be read at www.Glocaleye.org. He tweets @Muqtedarkhan.

MY BOOKS

Islam and Good Governance: A Political Philosophy of Ihsan



1

Islamic Democratic Discourse: Theory, Debates, and Philosophical Perspectives

2

Debating Moderate Islam: The Geopolitics of Islam and the West

3

Jihad for Jerusalem: Identity and Strategy in International Relations

4

American Muslims: Bridging Faith and Freedom

Testimonials

Muqtedar Khan is one of the rising stars among Muslim intellectuals in the West.

The Daily Star

Voice of Moderate Islam

Los Angeles Times and the Boston Globe

A Rare Moderate Voice

The Daily Times

I think that Dr Khan helps reinforce that the war on terrorism is not a war on Islam.

General Richard Myers, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

Muqtedar Khan brings passion, eloquence and intellectual power to bear on his subject.

Dr. Ali Mazrui

Muqtedar Khan’s intelligent, reasoned, self-critical, impassioned and provocative Muslim voice makes a distinctive and significant contribution to the process of reexamination and reform that has been made even more urgent in the aftermath of 9/11.

John L. Esposito

To my mind, Dr. Muqtedar Khan has lived up to the challenging role of of the public intellectual in a time of crisis.

Akber S. Ahmed

Khan believes his more liberal voice highlights a historical tension between traditionalist Islamic theologians, who tend to furnish more conservative fatwas  and Islamic philosophers who go for the more flexible rulings.

Washington Post

But make no mistake: Khan, 36, is one of a growing number of young, moderate Muslim thinkers who believe themselves engaged in a battle for the soul of Islam.

Newsday