Dr. Saiyad Nizamuddin Ahmad

Saiyad Nizamuddin Ahmad is currently The Prophet Muhammad University Professor of Shia Islam Studies at Florida International University (FIU) where he holds the rank of Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies. He is also an Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter, UK as well as a faculty member of Mufid Academic Seminary, Fairfax, Virginia. He received his MA and Ph.D. in Islamic Studies from Princeton University. He also holds an MA in Arabic from Indiana University and a BSc in Pure Mathematics from Purdue University. Dr. Ahmad has about twenty years of teaching and research experience having served on the faculties of a number of universities and research institutes both in the US and abroad, namely the University of Texas at Austin, the International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization in Kuala Lumpur, the American University of Sharjah, the American University in Cairo, and The Shīʿah Institute, London. Dr. Ahmad has presented scholarly papers on a very wide range of subjects at some of the most renowned institutions of learning in the both East and West, namely Oxford University, Cambridge University, and the Warburg Institute (School of Advanced Study, University of London), the American University of Beirut, Institut Francais d’Egypt, and the International Institute of Advanced Islamic Studies, Malaysia.

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