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Islam News

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  Sherman Jackson Named among the World's 500 Most Influential Muslims

  April 2, 2012

  Sherman Jackson, King Faisal Chair in Islamic Thought and Culture, and professor of religion and American studies and ethnicity in USC Dornsife, has been named for the second time among the world’s 500 most influential… more>

  categories: research, faculty research

  tags: american studies and ethnicity, award, humanities, islam, law, religion, sherman jackson

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  A Brand of Complex Research

  September 10, 2009

  Traveling 7,600 miles to Jordan, Laurie Brand began her massive research project that will also take her to Algeria, Egypt and Lebanon before the end of 2010. Salt, Jordan, the first leg of Brand's travels, is an ancient… more>

  categories: research, faculty research

  tags: algeria, carnegie scholar, egypt, grant, international relations, islam, jordan, lebanon, middle east studies program, museum

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  International Relations Professor Named Carnegie Scholar

  April 1, 2008

  The Carnegie Corporation of New York announced April 4 that Laurie Brand, director of the USC School of International Relations, has been named a 2008 Carnegie Scholar. One of only 20 academics to receive the Carnegie award,… more>

  tags: arab nationalism, islam, religion

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  God’s Biographer Takes On Islamic Extremism

  October 1, 2007

  Opening a USC conference on religion and international relations, author Jack Miles lamented mass confusion about America’s role in Islamic politics and said that, in fact, for the past four decades American presidents… more>

  tags: international relations, islam, religion

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  Conversation With Timur Kuran

  December 18, 2006

  Timur Kuran is a professor of economics and law in USC College and the King Faisal Professor of Islamic Thought and Culture. More than 20 years ago, he wrote an influential paper explaining how the long history of Islam… more>

  tags: islam, middle east, religion