M. A. Muqtedar Khan is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Delaware. He earned his PhD in International Rela...view moreM. A. Muqtedar Khan is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Delaware. He earned his PhD in International Relations, Political Philosophy and Islamic Political Thought, from Georgetown University in May 2000. He founded the Islamic Studies programme at the University of Delaware and was its first director from 2007 to 2010. Dr Muqtedar Khan is a fellow of the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding. He was a senior non-resident fellow of the Brookings Institution (2003–8) and a fellow of the Alwaleed Center at Georgetown University (2006–7). He has been the president, vice president and general secretary of the Association of Muslim Social Scientists.view less