Qamar-ul Huda
Senior Program Officer, Religion and Peacemaking Center
of Innovation
Middle East | South Asia | Nonviolence | Islamic Philosophy and Ethics |
Interfaith Dialogue | Conflict Resolution | Religious Conflict
Phone: (202) 429-4707
E-mail: qhuda@usip.org
Languages: Arabic | Urdu
Qamar-ul Huda joined USIP as a senior program officer in the Religion and Peacemaking Centers of
Innovation in June 2005. His research focuses on Islamic thought and philosophy on violence,
nonviolence and conflict resolution. Prior to joining the Institute, Huda was a professor of
Islamic studies and comparative religion at Boston College’s Theology Department (1997-2005) and a
visiting professor of Islamic studies at the College of Holy Cross and Brandeis University.
He serves as adviser on interfaith relations to the archdiocese of Boston and has written on the
subject of dialogue and interfaith studies as a critical way to foster peace. Previously, Huda
focused on political, theological and social history of Islamic mysticism and treatises dealing
with Qur’anic hermeneutics.
He holds a B.A. from Colgate University and a Ph.D. in Islamic intellectual history from the
University of California, Los Angeles.
Multimedia
America & Islam
Gallup World Poll
September 14, 2007
Islamic Reform in Practice: The Ideas of
Mahmoud Taha
USIP Event
January 2006
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