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Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad

The Minaret of Freedom Institute

Dr. Ahmad was raised in Pennsylvania and has degrees from Harvard and the University of Arizona. He currently teaches honors courses in “Islamic Science, Politics, and Economics” and on “Religion, Science, and Freedom” at the University of Maryland in College Park, MD and on “The Encounter Between Culture and Development” in Islam and Development and Theory of Social Change at the Johns Hopkins University School for Advanced International Studies. Dr. Ahmad has conducted training sessions on Islam at the Foreign Services Institute and for the U.S Air Force’s Middle East and Asian Pacific orientation courses. He is currently President of the Minaret of Freedom Institute, an Islamic think tank in the Washington, DC area.

Dr. Ahmad is the Islamic chaplain at the Perkins Hospital, Imam of the Daradh-Dhikr Mosque, President of the Islamic-American Zakat Foundation, and arbitrator for the Coordinating Council of Muslim Organizations in the Greater Washington Metropolitan Area.

Dr. Ahmad has received many awards, including the “Champion of Democracy Award” from Marylanders for Democracy, the “Samuel P. Chase Freedom Award” from the Libertarian Party of Maryland, and the “Sentinel Award” from the Montgomery County Civic Federation.