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Emad Al-Din Ahmed

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  • Country of residence: United States
  • Gender: Male
  • Born in: 1948
  • Age: 75
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Imad Eddin Ahmed (also known as Dean Ahmed) (born August 11, 1948) is a Palestinian-American scholar and author and the president of the Minaret of Freedom Institute, a tax-exempt libertarian think tank. He is also the president of the Islamic Zakat Foundation of America, a religious and charitable organization that caters primarily to poor and needy Muslims in the United States.

his biography
Imad Eddin Ahmed was born while his family was heading to the United States after they left Palestine in 1948. He grew up in Pennsylvania and graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University (1970) and a Ph.D. in astronomy and astrophysics from the University of Arizona (1975). He is a Muslim.

Academic career
Ahmed teaches an introductory course on Islam at Wesley Theological Seminary. He has also taught courses on religion, science, and freedom at the University of Maryland, College Park, and courses on Islam and development at Georgetown University, Johns Hopkins University, the School of Advanced International Studies, and the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding.

Ahmed wrote and spoke about Islam, legal and religious freedom, democracy in the Islamic world, Islamic civil society, property rights in Islam, women in Islam and female genital mutilation, conflicts in the Middle East, especially in Palestine and Iraq, Palestinian human rights and property rights, terrorism, jihad and American civil liberties.

Ahmed is the author of Signs in the Sky: A Muslim Astronomer's Perspective on Religion, Science, and Islamic Rules of Order, co-editor of Islam and the West: A Dialogue, and co-author of Islam and the Discovery of Freedom. In addition, Ahmed contributed to the Encyclopedia of Libertarianism with an article on Islam. His discourse on “Islam, Business and Business Ethics” was published in Nicholas Capaldi’s book “Entrepreneurship and Religion: A Clash of Civilizations?” His writing has been published in journals and periodicals such as Middle East Politics, American Muslim Journal, Economic Affairs, and Georgetown Journal of International Affairs. Ahmed also served as a visiting lecturer at the Foreign Service Institute.

Emad El-Din Ahmed works as the Muslim Religious Attaché at American University, the Islamic Religious Attachéat Clifton T. Perkins Hospital, the imam of the Dar Al-Zikr Mosque and an arbitrator for the Coordinating Council of Islamic Organizations in Washington, DC. In 1998, in his role as liaison to the Muslim Council of America, he testified before the US Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil and Human Rights, and upheld the need for federal protections for religious freedom after the Supreme Court case of Boern v. Flores to the United States. Ahmed is also the spokesperson for the National Coalition for the Protection of Civil Liberties, a national coalition of more than 20 Islamic and civil organizations.

political activity
Emad El Din Ahmed has long been an outspoken critic of the neoconservative movement's role in shaping US foreign policy, especially in the Middle East.

In 2001, Ahmed joined a delegation of American Muslims participating in the "First Conference on Jerusalem" in Beirut, which was "dedicated to the liberation of Jerusalem."

Ahmed has been a libertarian activist since 1975, serving as president of the Libertarian Party of Maryland, managing four political campaigns, participating in various political activities of the Libertarian Party of Maryland and being a member of the Association of Academics Supporting Ron Paul during his 2008 presidential candidacy.

He has also been active in the activities of the National Libertarian Party, serving as the party's national secretary, chairman of its judiciary committee, chairman of its program committee, and chairman of Michael Badnarik's Islamic Outreach Committee in his 2004 presidential campaign.

In 1988, Ahmed ran for US Senator for the Libertarian Party, although only Republicans and Democrats were allowed to print their names unless the candidate gathered tens of thousands of signatures. Ahmed's court challenge to the law failed, but he received 500 votes. Later, Maryland law allowed the Libertarian Party to collect only 10,000 signatures to allow a candidate to run in the election and put his name on the ballot.

His candidacy for the US Senate 2012
In May 2012, the Libertarian Party of Maryland nominated Ahmed as its 2012 Senate candidate. After a successful legal battle for eligibility, he ran against Democratic politician Ben Cardin and Republican Dan Bongino. and independent Rob Sobhani. Ahmed's core program issues included bringing American troops home, restoring civil liberties endangered by the "war on terror", working to hold the federal government fiscally accountable, and ending corporate welfare.

Ahmed was supported by former Governor Gary Johnson, the Libertarian Party's candidate for President of the United States. Johnson wrote: “Dr. Ahmed is a strong and consistent voice calling for individual liberty for all Americans. His decades-long record of success as a civic activist proves that Dr. Dean Ahmed is the kind of American Senator this nation really needs.” Ahmed Johnson also supported him.

Ahmed participated in the Wobble Radio debate on October 24, 2012. Montgomery County Media aired his statement regarding his candidacy. Ahmed raised $8,565 to fund his campaign. He won 32,252 votes, or 1.3 percent of the total.

from his publications
Islamic Social Thought, 1982.
Signs in the Sky: A Muslim Astronomer's Perspective on Religion, Science, and Islamic Rules of Order, 1992.
Female Genital Mutilation: An Islamic Perspective, 2000.
Research Handbook in Islamic Work Ethics, 2015.
Islamic Contributions to Modern Scientific Methods, 2012.
Islam, Business and Entrepreneurship Ethics, 2004.

Achievements and Awards

Awards
In his capacity as past president of the East Bethesda Citizens Association and the Montgomery County Civic Union, Emaduddin Ahmed has been awarded the Montgomery County Civic Union's Star Trophy for Distinguished Public Service, the Marylandians for Democracy Champion of Democracy Award and the Ranger Award. From the Montgomery County Civic Union. In 2012, Ahmed was one of many Arab Americans honored at the Gaithersburg City Awards. In 1990, he received the Maryland Libertarian Party's Samuel Chase Award, named after Maryland's representative at the signing ceremonies of the US Declaration of Independence.

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