Biographical Note

 

Professor John Esposito

John Esposito is a University Professor and founding Director of the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Georgetown University. His specialty is political Islam and the impact of Islamic movements from North Africa to Southeast Asia. He is Editor-in-Chief of the four-volume Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World, The Oxford History of Islam and the Oxford Dictionary of Islam, and his more than 25 books include: What Everyone Should Know About Islam: Questions and Answers; Unholy War: Terror in the Name of Islam; The Islamic Threat: Myth or Reality?; Islam and Politics; Islam and Democracy (with J. Voll); Islam: The Straight Path, and Women in Muslim Family Law. Professor Esposito teaches classes on Islam and Politics, Islam and the West, and Women in Islam, among others.

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