Professor Mumtaz Ahmad

Dr. Mumtaz Ahmad is Professor of Political Science at Hampton University in Virginia, U.S.A., and the Executive Director of the Iqbal International Institute for Research & Dialogue (IRD), International Islamic University, Islamabad. He received an MA in Political Science from the University of Karachi in Pakistan, an MA in Development Administration from the American University of Beirut in Lebanon, and his Doctorate in Political Science from the University of Chicago.  He has been a Research Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., and an Associate Professor at the National Institute of Public Administration in Karachi.  He was a Senior Fulbright Research Fellow in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, and a United States Institute of Peace Fellow in Sudan, Pakistan and Malaysia. Dr Ahmad has also been a Fellow of the American Institute of Bangladesh Studies and the American Institute of Pakistan Studies. He was a member of the "Islam and Social Change Project" at the University of Chicago, and the "Fundamentalism Project" of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Ahmad has been a Visiting Professor at the International Islamic University, Kuala Lumpur, Foreign Professor in Social Sciences at the International Islamic University, Islamabad, and a senior consultant to the "Muslims in American Public Square Project," and “The State of Islamic Studies in American Universities” project, Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.

 Dr. Ahmad is the current President of South Asian Muslim Studies Association (SAMSA), an affiliate of the Association of Asian Studies (AAS), and Vice-President of Center for Islam and Public Policy (CIPP), Washington, D.C. He is co-editor of the journal “Studies in Contemporary Islam,” published by the Youngstown State University, Youngstown, Ohio.  His areas of academic and research interests are: comparative politics of the Middle East and South Asia; the U.S. and the Islamic World; Islamic political thought and institutions; comparative politics of contemporary Islamic movements; politics and sociology of the madrassa education; and ethnicity and the state. Dr. Ahmad has published nine books, numerous book chapters, and encyclopedia and journal articles on politics of South Asia and the Middle East and the politics of Islamic resurgence. Dr. Ahmad has recently completed a 3-year extensive study of the madrassa education in Bangladesh and Pakistan.

Prof Ahmad's presentation at the Countering Militancy in Pakistan: Domestic, Regional and International Dimensions Conference was, Madrassa Education and Militancy: Evidence from Pakistan.