Academic. Born in Singapore to Pakistani parents, he was raised in various places completing the equivalent of high school in Surrey, in the UK. He then did a law degree at the International Islamic University in Kuala Lumpur followed by bachelors and masters degrees from The American University in Cairo in Islamic studies; receiving his PhD in Islamic studies from Princeton University in 1999. In between he worked as a journalist in Pakistan where he may have played soccer with Osama bin Laden. His magnum opus "What Is Islam?" Was published posthumously in December 2015. In the book Dr. Ahmed strives for new ways of understanding Islam in part by understanding it's multifaceted past. For many years a professor at Harvard University, and it's law school; he was at his death affiliated with the Aga Khan Program in Islamic Architecture at Harvard University, though he had intended to return to Princeton to teach in the fall of 2015. His death was caused by a form of leukemia diagnosed a few months previously. He was survived by his parents, a sister, and his wife whom he had married on August 1. He was mourned as one of the most promising voices in Islamic Studies.
Academic. Born in Singapore to Pakistani parents, he was raised in various places completing the equivalent of high school in Surrey, in the UK. He then did a law degree at the International Islamic University in Kuala Lumpur followed by bachelors and masters degrees from The American University in Cairo in Islamic studies; receiving his PhD in Islamic studies from Princeton University in 1999. In between he worked as a journalist in Pakistan where he may have played soccer with Osama bin Laden. His magnum opus "What Is Islam?" Was published posthumously in December 2015. In the book Dr. Ahmed strives for new ways of understanding Islam in part by understanding it's multifaceted past. For many years a professor at Harvard University, and it's law school; he was at his death affiliated with the Aga Khan Program in Islamic Architecture at Harvard University, though he had intended to return to Princeton to teach in the fall of 2015. His death was caused by a form of leukemia diagnosed a few months previously. He was survived by his parents, a sister, and his wife whom he had married on August 1. He was mourned as one of the most promising voices in Islamic Studies.
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