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Dr. M. A. Muqtedar Khan is a Professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Delaware. He is the Academic Director of the State Department’s National Security Institute (2016-2019) at the Institute for Global Studies at the University of Delaware. He is a Senior Fellow of the Center for Global Policy. He was a Senior Nonresident Fellow of the Brookings Institution (2003-2008), a Fellow of the Prince Alwaleed Center at Georgetown University (2006-2007) and a Fellow of the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (2001-2016). He founded the Islamic Studies Program at the University of Delaware and was its first Director from 2007-2010. He earned his Ph.D. in International Relations, Political Philosophy, and Islamic Political Thought, from Georgetown University in May 2000. He is the author of several books: American Muslims: Bridging Faith and Freedom (Amana, 2002), Jihad for Jerusalem: Identity and Strategy in International Relations (Praeger, 2004), Islamic Democratic Discourse (Lexington Books, 2006), Debating Moderate Islam: The Geopolitics of Islam and the West (University of Utah Press, 2007) and Islam and Good Governance: A Political Philosophy of Ihsan (Palgrave, 2019). Dr. Khan is a frequent commentator in the international media. His articles and commentaries can be found at www.ijtihad.org. His research can be found at https://udel.academia.edu/MuqtedarKhan He has also testified to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the Judiciary Sub-committee on Constitution and HR, and the House Armed Services Committee.