PrintQamar-ul Huda
Senior Program Officer, Religion and Peacemaking Center of Innovation
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Conflict, Identity, and Reform in the Muslim World highlights the challenges that escalating identity conflicts within Muslim-majority states pose for both the Muslim world and for the West, an issue that has received scant attention in policy and academic circles.
Muslims in general and Muslim leaders particularly have often been severely criticized for not more energetically condemning the violent acts of Muslim extremists. The uninformed often assume that extremists represent Islam’s mainstream.
The resignation of Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf — once a key Washington ally — marks a new stage in the country’s often volatile politics. Institute specialists Alex Thier and Qamar-ul Huda discuss a host of challenges on Pakistan's political scene.
Qamar-ul Huda joined USIP as a senior program officer in the Religion and Peacemaking Centers of Innovation in June 2005. His research focuses on Islamic thought and philosophy on violence, nonviolence and conflict resolution. Prior to joining the Institute, Huda was a professor of Islamic studies and comparative religion at Boston College’s Theology Department (1997-2005) and a visiting professor of Islamic studies at the College of Holy Cross and Brandeis University.
He serves as adviser on interfaith relations to the archdiocese of Boston and has written on the subject of dialogue and interfaith studies as a critical way to foster peace. Previously, Huda focused on political, theological and social history of Islamic mysticism and treatises dealing with Qur’anic hermeneutics.
He holds a B.A. from Colgate University and a Ph.D. in Islamic intellectual history from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Publications:
- "Coming to terms with the Qur'an," (Islamic Publications International, April 2008).
- Islamic Reform Relating to Conflict and Peace
USIPeace Briefing (2006). - The Diversity of Muslims in the United States: Views as Americans
USIP Special Report (2006). - "The 40th Anniversary of Vatican II: Examining Dominus Iesus and Contemporary Issues for Inter-religious Dialogue between Muslims and Catholics," Journal of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations (2004).
- "The Light beyond the Shore in the Theology of Proper Sufi Moral Conduct-Adab," The Journal of the American Academy of Religion (2004).
- Striving for Divine Union: Spiritual Exercises for the Suhrawardi Sufis (2003).
- "The Problems of Violence and Conflict in Islam: A New Theological Hermeneutic toward Building an Islamic Liberation Theology," Contagion: Violence, Mimesis, and Culture (2002).
Multimedia
- America & Islam (Gallup World Poll, September 14, 2007)
- Islamic Reform in Practice: The Ideas of Mahmoud Taha (USIP Event, January 2006)
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January 20, 2006
Issue Areas: Religion
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October 4, 2006
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November 21, 2006
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