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Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad
Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad (born August 11, 1948) is an American Muslim scholar and the president of the Minaret of Freedom Institute, a libertarian Muslim think-tank.
Born at sea as his mother fled from Palestine, Ahmad was raised in Pennsylvania and earned a bachelor's degree from Harvard University (1970) and a doctoral degree in astronomy and astrophysics from the University of Arizona (1975).
Ahmad currently teaches on the subjects of religion in society at the University of Maryland, College Park and Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of Signs in the Heavens, co-editor of Islam and the West: A Dialog, and co-author of Islam and the Discovery of Freedom. Ahmad has been an outspoken critic of the United States' foreign policy in the Middle East.
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