Dr. Mumtaz Ahmad

Mumtaz Ahmad is professor in Hampton University's Department of Political Science. He has been a senior research associate at MRM, INC., a social science research and consulting firm focusing on contemporary South Asian and Middle Eastern developments, and an Associate Professor at the National Institute of Public Administration in Karachi, Pakistan. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences' "Fundamentalism Project," Dr. Ahmad has been a Research Fellow at the Brookings Institution, a Fellow of the American Institute of Pakistan Studies and the International Institute of Islamic Thought, a Fulbright Professor in Bangladesh and Pakistan, and a Visiting Professor at International Islamic University, Kuala Lumpur.

Dr. Ahmad holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Chicago, and other degrees from the American University of Beirut, Lebanon, and the University of Karachi, Pakistan. His main areas of academic interest are the comparative politics of South Asia and the Middle East, Islamic political thought and institutions, and the comparative politics of contemporary Islamic revivalism. Dr. Ahmad has published seven books and numerous papers and articles on politics of Islamic resurgence and Islamic developments in South Asia and the Middle East.