Amir Hussain's Web Page

Department of Theological Studies
Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles

Greetings and welcome to my Web Page. I am a professor in the Department of Theological Studies at Loyola Marymount University (LMU).

My own area of research is on the study of Islam, specifically contemporary Muslim societies in North America. My PhD dissertation was on Muslim communities in Toronto.

I am the Editor of the Journal of the American Academy of Religion (JAAR).

For all correspondance about JAAR, please email: jaareditor@lmu.edu

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My most recent book is the third edition of the edited textbook World Religions: Western Traditions.

Information about World Religions: Western Traditions, can be found here from Oxford University Press Canada

Oxford University Press USA has a page about the book here

Order World Religions: Western Traditions from Amazon.com

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In 2008 we hosted the Bellarmine Forum at LMU on the theme of religion, identity and interfaith dialogue.

Details about the Bellarmine Forum (including webcasts of the sessions) can be found on this web page.

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Oil and Water: Two Faiths, One God is an introduction to Islam, Muslims and interfaith dialogue.

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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"Every year is World Hunger Year until we end world hunger"

Links about hunger

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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://myweb.lmu.edu/ahussain/

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

Teaching:

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

• My Grading Standards

• THST 386: Islam

• THST 180: Religions of the World

• THST 398: Muslim/Jewish Theology

• THST 481: Islam in the Modern World

• THST 680: Comparative Theology

• THST 698: Islam and Interreligious Dialogue

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:

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

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

Details about Convivencia can be found on this web page.

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

More About Me:

• I am a fellow of the Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities.

• An article about me from the LMU Magazine is available online.

• You can see video of me giving a keynote presentation in 2007 at the Chautauqua Institution.

• I am on the editorial boards of four journals: Comparative Islamic Studies; the Journal of Religion, Conflict, and Peace ; the Ethiopian Journal of Religious Studies; and Contemporary Islam: Dynamics of Muslim Life.

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

• I am on the Board of Scholars of The Center for Global Understanding.

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

• I am on the Advisory Board of Abrahamic Alliance International.

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

• An article that I wrote on Muslims on North American Television for Contemporary Islam: Dynamics of Muslim Life (4:1, April 2010) is available online.

• 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.