Convivencia: Religious Identities in the New World is a conference that we are hosting at LMU from March 27 to 29, 2008.

Details about Convivencia can be found on this web page.

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My new book is Oil and Water: Two Faiths, One God.

Information about Oil and Water: Two Faiths, One God, can be found here from Google Books

Wood Lake Books has a page about the book here

Order Oil and Water: Two Faiths, One God from Amazon.com

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Click here for the web page for A Common Word, an interfaith call from Muslims to Christians.

“Every year is World Hunger Year until we end world hunger”

Links about hunger

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Statement by Scholars of Islam to Attacks on Sept. 11, 2001

My contact information is:

Amir Hussain, PhD
Department of Theological Studies
Loyola Marymount University
1 LMU Drive, Suite 3700
Los Angeles, CA 90045-2659
USA

Office Location: University Hall, Room 3724

Phone: (310) 338-5987
Fax: (310) 338-1947
Email: amir.hussain@lmu.edu

Web Page: http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/theology/amir/

The photograph to the right is me with my friends Miriam and Sarah at the Naramata Centre.

Teaching:

• Responsibilities and Respect: My assumptions about behaviour in the classroom

• My Grading Standards

• THST 180: Religions of the World

• THST 386: Islam

• THST 698: Islam and Interreligious Dialogue

• THST 498: Islam in the Modern World

The Study of Islam at LMU:

• On April 14, 2000, we opened the Wilfred and Muriel Smith Collection at the Oviatt Library of CSUN. Click here to read my remarks on that occasion.

• A memorial tribute to Professor Wilfred Cantwell Smith is available online.

• Links For The Academic Study of Islam:

More About Me:

• You can see video of me on the Tavis Smiley Show.

• You can see video of me being interviewed on Bridges TV.

• I am on the editorial boards of two journals: Comparative Islamic Studies, and Contemporary Islam.

• I am on the Board of Directors of The Carold Institute.

• I am on the Advisory Board of Abraham’s Vision.

• I am part of the research network for the Islam and Human Rights Fellowship Program at Emory University.

• An online article about me from 1998.

• An article that I wrote for the Journal of Religion and Film is available online.

• My degrees are from the University of Toronto; undergraduate from University College, and graduate from the Centre for the Study of Religion.

• I am Canadian / Je suis Canadien.

• Canada is Hockey and Hockey is the Montreal Canadiens.

• The greatest band to come out of Canada was, well, The Band.

• The greatest guitarist you’ve probably never heard of is Richard Thompson.

• The William Blake Archive is an excellent starting point to learn about the visionary poet.

• The Woody Guthrie Foundation and Archives are now online.