He has taught history and Islamic studies at Harvard and the University of Chicago.
Frank graduated in Arabic and Islamic Studies and previously worked as an investment banker before joining the BBC.
Then, there was this gem from Ihsan Bagby, an associate professor in Islamic Studies at the University of Kentucky.
The course, Introduction to Islam, is one of a growing number of Islamic studies courses being offered by universities across the country.
In yet another ribbon-cutting between British and Saudi royalty, Prince Philip today unveiled the Alwaleed Center for Islamic Studies at the University of Cambridge.
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Ingrid Mattson is director of the Macdonald Center for the Study of Islamic Studies and Christian-Muslim Relations at the Hartford Seminary in Connecticut .
Classes include Islamic studies, embroidery, animation, radio production and computer science.
Politicians who thought these Islamic parties had deep support "were completely wrong, " says Anis Baswedan, president of Jakarta's Paramadina University, which specializes in Islamic studies.
In Jerusalem we have the Association of Islamic Studies and Cultures.
With increasing openness, Muslims accuse such figures as the sheikh of al-Azhar, Cairo's 1, 000 year old seat of Islamic studies, of being stooges for the government.
The DfES cannot say how many people are studying Islam at university, but currently there are 44 higher education courses with Islamic studies in the title being taught.
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It teaches primarily in Arabic and its courses include a diploma in Arabic for those with little or no prior knowledge, a bachelor's degree in Islamic studies and an Imam diploma.
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An additional 30 minutes a day are taken by Islamic studies, taught by the local mullahs following a textbook written by Mr. Qalamuddin and approved by the Afghan authorities.
It is unlikely to be purely coincidental that Mr. Mohamed reportedly had rented a room in a house used by al-Arian to run his front organization, the World Islamic Studies Enterprise.
In its recently published counter-terrorism strategy, "Contest 2", the Government congratulated itself on its "key achievement" of promoting the UK as "a centre of excellence for Islamic studies outside the Muslim world".
Princess Ameerah recently joined Prince Philip to christen the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Islamic studies center at the University of Cambridge, which was formed with a donation from the Alwaleed bin Talal Foundation.
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The answers came primarily from Professor Moosa with call-in participation by Professor Hina Azam, a Duke University graduate school graduate who is now an Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Texas, Austin.
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On 22 November 2010, Ebrahim Moosa, a South African-born associate professor of Islamic Studies in the Duke University Department of Religion, recorded one of a series of video interviews for the " Office Hours at Duke University " program.
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Mr Rammell added that Dr Siddiqui's review, as well as other reports and conferences on Islam in higher education, suggested Islamic studies departments were concentrating too much on a Middle Eastern focus and ignore the realities of Islam in modern multi-cultural Britain.
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Hardly a month goes by without a news report that one of the princes is endowing a new center of Islamic and Arabic studies, or a business or scientific department, at a foreign university.
Apart from ostensibly disowning the Institute for Islamic and Arabic Studies after the Journal story ran, however, there is not much evidence that they have abandoned the war of ideas they and their clients have been waging elsewhere.
Tobin and others also worry about who is funding Islamic and Middle Eastern studies.
"It's particularly important for classes to be diverse, for people to have familiarity with Arabic studies and Islamic law, " he said.
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Jamsheed K. Choksy is professor of Iranian, Islamic, and International Studies at Indiana University where he served as director of Middle Eastern Studies.
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In the wake of the September 11 attacks, interest in Islamic and Middle Eastern studies has surged and universities are scrambling to meet that demand.
Moreover, many pesantren graduates undertake tertiary studies in the State Islamic Institutes, which have evolved into modern centers of learning.
Jihad Turk, director of religious studies at LA's Islamic Center of Southern California, says that of the roughly 750, 000 Muslims living in Southern California, just 30, 000, or about 4%, regularly attend Friday prayer.
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Staff at a London-based Islamic research body, the Institute for Ismaili Studies, have ranged from radicals like Mohammed Arkoun, a leader of the French deconstructionist school, to traditional Sunni or Sufi scholars.
Alma Sultangalieva, the director of the Kazakhstan Institute for Strategic Studies, views the development of Islamic dissent in the industrialised parts of the Fergana Valley more as a social issue triggered by high unemployment.
"Today, Iran's security apparatus is entrenched in the Islamic republic, " said Hamid Dabashi, professor of Iranian studies at New York's Columbia University.
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