Amir Hussain is a scholar of religion who specializes in the study of Islam. Currently,he is a professor in the Department of Theological Studies at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. In November 2022 he became President of the American Academy of Religion. He has done significant publishing work with Oxford University Press,including editing the fifth editions (2018) of two of their main textbooks,World Religions:Western Traditions[1] and World Religions:Eastern Traditions,[2] and the third edition of A Concise Introduction to World Religions.[3]
Professor Hussain is also a senior editor for religion for Oxford Handbooks Online.[10] Prior to his edited textbooks,he wrote Muslims and the Making of America,published in 2016 by Baylor University Press.[11] From 2011 to 2015 he was the editor of the Journal of the American Academy of Religion,the flagship journal for the study of religion.[12] He is also on the editorial boards of four other scholarly journals for the study of religion. In 2005,he joined the Department of Theological Studies at Loyola Marymount University,the Jesuit university in Los Angeles.[13] He has written numerous scholarly articles on Islam and Muslims,and is recognized as an authority on Islam in North America. He is a fellow of the Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities.[14]
Works
Oil and Water:Two Faiths,One God,(Wood Lake Books,2006)
A Concise Introduction to World Religions,third edition (Oxford University Press,2015)
Muslims and the Making of America,(Baylor University Press,2016)
World Religions:Western Traditions,fifth edition (Oxford University Press,2018)
World Religions:Eastern Traditions,fifth edition (Oxford University Press,2018)
Notes
↑ Amir Hussain; Roy C. Amore; Willard Oxtoby, eds. (2018). World Religions: Western Traditions (5thed.). Oxford University Press. p.480. ISBN9780190877064.
↑ Amir Hussain (2007). Muslims and the Making of America (11 B&W photos and 7 illustrationsed.). Baylor University Press. p.142. ISBN9781481306232.
↑ Amir Hussain (2012-12-04). "Oxford Journals". Journal of the American Academy of Religion. Archived from the original on 2005-07-06. Retrieved 2019-04-19.
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