Akbar Ahmed
![](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/static/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2013/5/2/1367525950841/akbarahmed_140x140.jpg?width=100&dpr=1&s=none)
Akbar Ahmed is the Ibn Khaldun chair of Islamic studies at American Univerity in Washington, DC. He has also taught at Princeton, Harvard, and Cambridge Universities. Formerly, he was the Pakistan High Commissioner (ambassador) to the UK and Ireland. His most recent book is Journey into Islam: The Crisis of Globalization (2011)