Amir Hussain

Who is Amir Hussain?

Amir Hussain is a scholar of religion who specializes in the study of Islam. He is the editor of the Journal of the American Academy of Religion, which is the flagship journal for the study of religion. He is also on the editorial boards of four other scholarly journals for the study of religion. In 2005, he joined the Department of Theological Studies at Loyola Marymount University, the Jesuit university in Los Angeles. He has done significant publishing work with Oxford University Press, including editing one of their main textbooks, World Religions: Western Traditions. Professor Hussain is also a senior editor for religion for Oxford Handbooks Online. He has written numerous scholarly articles on Islam and Muslims, and is recognized as an authority on Islam in North America. He is a fellow of the Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities.