Ahmed Afzaal

• REL 100 "Christianity and Religious Diversity"
• REL 334 "Monotheisms: Jewish, Christian, Islamic"
• REL 384 "Exploring Islam"
• REL 362 "Approaching the Qur'an"
• REL 388 "Religion, Violence, and Nonviolence"
• REL 331: "Understanding Religion"
• REL 234 "Symbol, Myth, and Ritual"

• Religion and Social Theory
• Religion and Ecology
• Religion and Politics
• Islamic Theology, Ethics, and Mysticism
• Islam and Modernity
• Principled and Strategic Nonviolence
• Muhammad Iqbal
• Christian-Muslim Relations

Publications

“Disenchantment and the Environmental Crisis: Lynn White Jr., Max Weber, and Muhammad Iqbal” Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology Vol. 16, No. 3 (2012), pp. 239–262.

“Nonviolence” in Gerhard Bowering, Patricia Crone, Wadad Kadi and Devin J. Stewart, eds., Princeton Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2012)

“Grading and its Discontents” The Chronicle of Higher Education July 11, 2012.

"Deciphering Political Language" New Clear Vision, June 22, 2011.

"Read, Don't Burn: Out of Darkness Comes Light" New Clear Vision, April 8, 2011.

"Healthy Boundaries: Searching Hight and Low for Common Ground" New Clear Vision, March 25, 2011.

"Nonviolence: From Mecca to Montgomery" New Clear Vision, February 24, 2011.

"Kinship in Thought and Clash of Civilizations" in Tidsskrift om Islam & Kristendom. 3/2010, pp. 37-43.

"Iqbal's Approach to the Qur'an" in Muhammad Suheyl Umar and Basit Bilal Koshul, Eds., Muhammad Iqbal, A Contemporary: Celebrating the Centenary of Iqbal's Stay in Europe, 1905-1908 (Lahore: Iqbal Academy Pakistan, 2010) pp. 7-26.

Jihad without Violence. Warren, MI: Islamic Organization of North America, 2010.

"Between Suspicion and Trust" Intersections, Fall 2009, pp. 10-15.

"Free Speech Comes with a Price Tag" The Forum, October 12, 2008.

"Ignorance of Islam is Shocking" The Forum, September 23, 2007.

"Losing My Religion: A Call for Help" (Book Review) The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences Vol. 22, No. 4 (2005) pp. 117-120.

"The Flame of Sinai: Hope and Vision in Iqbal" (Book Review) The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences Vol. 21, No. 2 (2004) pp. 132-134.

"Fundamentalist and Modernist Debates in Islam: A Reader" (Book Review) The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences Vol. 21, No. 2 (2004) pp. 97-99.

"Islam and Jihad: Prejudice versus Reality" (Book Review) Islamic Studies Vol. 42, No. 4 (2003) pp. 715-718.

Entries on Sufism, Tawhid, and Ibn Al-'Arabi Bron Taylor and Jeffrey Kaplan, Eds. The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature (London: Continuum, 2005)

"The Origin of Islam as a Social Movement" Islamic Studies Vol. 42, No. 2 (2003) pp. 203-243.

"The Other as Mirror: Scriptural Reasoning and the Hermeneutics of Ibn Al-‘Arabi" The Journal of Scriptural Reasoning Vol. 3, No. 2. August 2003.

"Denying the Undeniable: Pharaoh and the Signs of God" The Journal of Scriptural Reasoning Vol. 2, No. 2. September 2002.

Presentations

April 2011. “Islam and the Modern Predicament of Religion” (Workshop)
Las Vegas, NV

January 2011. “Islam and the Modern Predicament of Religion” (Workshop)
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

September 2011. "My Political Education Since 9/11"
North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND

April 2011. "Islam & Nonviolence"
Muslim Community Association, San Jose, CA 

October 2010: "Islam as News"
North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND

October 2010: "Bridging the Christian-Muslim Divide: Interfaith Solidarity for Positive Peace"
Annual Conference, Peace & Justice Studies Association, Winnipeg (Canada)

September 2010: "Islam: Practice, Faith, & Beauty" (Three Presentations)
Trinity Lutheran Church, Moorhead, MN

March 2010: "Diversity, Pluralism, and American Islam"
Fargo Public School, Fargo, ND

January 2010: "Domination Systems"
Unitarian Universalist Church, Fargo, ND

October 2009: "Civilization and the Origin of War"
Concordia College, Moorhead, MN

April 2009: "A Common Word"
University of Minnesota, Crookston, MN

February 2009: "Religion and Organized Violence"
North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND

October 2008: "Obsession and Radical Islam" (Panel)
North Dakota State University

June 2008: "The Place of Qur'an/Scripture in Iqbal's Thought" (Paper)
University of Cambridge, UK

March 2008: "Al-Ghazali's Deliverance from Error" (Workshop)
Muslim Community Association, Santa Clara, CA

January/February 2008: "Islam in Four Dimensions" (Four Presentations)
Bethesda Lutheran Church, Moorhead, MN

December 2007: "Introducing Islam"
Immanuel Lutheran Church in Hendrum, MN

April 2006: "Hermeneutics & the Future of Islam in America"
Yale University, New Haven, CT (Seminar Paper)

May 2004: "Islam and Modernization"
Islamic Information Center, Las Vegas, NV (Workshop)

April 2004: "Religion and Modern Times"
Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY (Seminar)

April 2004: "Gender in Islam"
New York University, New York, NY (Panel)

March 2004: "Prophetic Mysticism"
Islamic Information Center, Las Vegas, NV (Workshop)

September 2003: "Islam and Empire"
Drew University, Madison, NJ

April 2003: "Environmental Justice"
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ (Panel)

April 2003: "The Origin of Islam as a Social Movement"
Yale University, New Haven, CT (Paper)

November 2002: "Islam and Ecology"
Drew University, Madison, NJ

October 2002: "Muslim Stereotypes"
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ (Panel)

October 2002: "Introducing Islam"
Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ

July 2002: "Islam and Nonviolence"
Muslim Center of New York, Flushing, NY (Workshop)

March 2002: "Islam after 9/11"
United Methodist Church, Madison, NJ