Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im

Professor of Law

Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im (from Sudan) is the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law at Emory Law. 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 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 Professor An-Na'im's personal homepage at http://www.law.emory.edu/aannaim.

Professor 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.

Education: LLB (Honours), University of Khartoum (Sudan), 1970; LLB (Honours) and Diploma in Criminology, University of Cambridge (England), 1973; PhD (Law), University of Edinburgh (Scotland), 1976.