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About the Author

Ambassador Akbar S. Ahmedis an anthropologist, Islamic scholar, poet, playwright, and filmmaker described as the `world's leading authority on contemporary Islam' by the BBC. He currently holds the Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies at American University in Washington, DC and previously taught at Cambridge, Princeton, and Harvard universities. He was formerly the Pakistani High Commissioner to fly' UK and Ireland. His “Jinnah Quartet" included the feature film Jinnah, documentary, academic book, and a graphic novel on Mr. Jinnah, For Brooking Press he completed four books on the relationship between the West and the Muslim world, two accompanied by films, and is working on ‘The Mingling of the Oceans; How Civilizations Can Live Together.