Abdullahi 
AN-NA'IM

 
Emory University School of Law 
Visiting Scholar

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In Residence

21 May 2019 to 31 May 2019

Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im is Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law at Emory University, where he focuses on cross-cultural human rights issues, with an emphasis on Islam. He is also a faculty member of the Emory College of Arts and Sciences and the Emory University Center for Ethics. He directs projects on women and land in Africa and Islamic Family Law. During the fall 2009 semester, he was a Visiting Professor of Arabic and Islamic studies at Georgetown University where he taught “The Future of Islamic Law,” and a senior fellow at the Berkley Center. He is the author of African Constitutionalism and the Role of Islam (2006), Islam and the Secular State: Negotiating the Future of Shari‘a (2008), Muslims and Global Justice (2011) and What is an American Muslim? Embracing Faith and Citizenship (2014). Professor An-Na’im holds LLB Degrees from the University of Khartoum and the University of Cambridge, and a PhD in Law from the University of Edinburgh.

Cross-Cultural Human Rights, with an emphasis on Islam