Dr. Md. Maimul Ahsan Khan is an accomplished and innovative author and law professor specializing in Jurisprudence, Islamic Law, International Commercial Law, Islam and Muslim Culture, Political Science, Human Rights, and Middle Eastern, Central and South Asian Studies. He has published a good number of books and numerous research articles in three different languages - English, Russian, and Bengali published from the former Soviet Republics, UK., U.S.A., Malaysia, Turkey and Bangladesh. He is a former Chair of the Department of Law (University of Dhaka), and the Department of Law and Shari'ah (Islamic University-Gazipur). As a Professor of Law and Fulbright Fellow, MAIMUL AHSAN KHAN, has served as a visiting professor of law to a number of American (UIUC-Law, UC-Davis-Berkeley), Technical University of Liberace-Czech Republic, Maleksha University of Turkey and Bangladeshi universities. He served to the Amnesty International-USA (Country Specialist on Afghanistan 2000-06), Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies, UK-based Islamic Foundation in Leicester. Prof. Khan has contributed to many Soviet, Iranian, Turkish, Czech, Malaysian, Taiwanese, Japanese, and American academic institutions and circles with a distinct voice of protest against all kinds of injustices, including violations of human rights in general and discrimination against Muslims and Bengalis in particular. From Tashkent State University, in 1985, he was awarded Ph.D. for his research on Jurisprudence with special emphasis on Islamic legal doctrines as applies in the Middle East. He successfully challenged the long-lasting Soviet communist belief that Islam was dead and Muslims had no future at world stage as civilization-builders, and successfully demonstrated in his research that Islam was alive and Muslims had been coming back as an integral part of the overall religious, spiritual, and civilizational revival around the globe to play positive role in diverse area of creativity. At present working as a professor of law at the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh and as an Academic Advisor of Green University of Bangladesh. Among the books he authored some are titled Human Rights in the Muslim World: Constitutionalism, Fundamentalism, and International Politics, Carolina Academic Press, USA, 2003, pp. 512 (ISBN 0-89089-045-5), The Vision and Impact of Fethullah Gulen: A New Paradigm for Social Activism, Blue Dome Press, New York, 2011, pp. 198; Islamic Jurisprudence and Women's Rights, ISBN: 984-300-002546-6, Islamic Financing and Banking: From Traditional Views to Arab Spring, published by Lincoln University College, Malaysia, 2012, pp. 330; Jurisprudence: Reconstructing the Ideals of Legality, Politics and Morality, 2011, pp. 618. He has edited the book titled Women Rights in Islam: Religious and Cultural Views about Secular Perception,' ISBN: 978-984-8822-01-2. He has translated the book of late American Professor L. Ziring who has written a master-piece on the first two decades of Bangladesh and also published a book on Arab Spring in Bangla.
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