Amir Hussain
Amir Hussain | |
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| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Toronto |
| Thesis | The Canadian face of Islam: Muslim communities in Toronto (2001) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Islam, interfaith dialog |
| Institutions | California State University, Northridge Loyola Marymount University |
| Website | amirhussain |
Amir Hussain is a scholar of religion who specializes in the study of Islam. Currently, he is a professor in the Department of Theological Studies at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. In 2023 he served as President of the American Academy of Religion. In 2025, he published One God and Two Religions with Fortress Press. He has done significant publishing work with Oxford University Press, including editing the fifth editions (2018) of two of their main textbooks, World Religions: Western Traditions and World Religions: Eastern Traditions, and the third edition of A Concise Introduction to World Religions.. He is the editor-in-chief of the Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam in North America.