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Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im

Professor of Law

Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im (from Sudan) is Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law at Emory Law School. An internationally recognized scholar of Islam and human rights, and human rights in cross-cultural perspectives, Professor An-Na'im teaches courses in international law, human rights, and Islamic law. His research interests also include constitutionalism in Islamic and African countries, and Islam and politics.  Professor An-Na'im directed the following research projects which focus on advocacy strategies for reform through internal cultural transformation:

- Women and Land in Africa,
- Islamic Family Law, and
- Fellowship Program in Islam and Human Rights.

The websites for these projects can be accessed through Prof An-Na'im's personal home page at http://www.law.emory.edu/aannaim.

Prof. An-Na'im's current research project is a book manuscript on The Future of Shari'ah: Secularism from an Islamic Perspective, which is being translated for publication in Indonesian, Persian, Urdu, Bengali, Turkish and Russian, as well as in English.

Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law, Emory University. LL.B. (Honours), University of Khartoum (Sudan), 1970; LL.B. (Honours) and Diploma in Criminology, University of Cambridge (England), 1973; Ph.D., (Law), University of Edinburgh (Scotland), 1976.