Ergun Caner

Who is Ergun Caner?

Ergun Michael Caner is a Swedish-American academic, author, and Baptist minister. Caner's mother converted to Islam, and the couple chose to raise Caner in the Islamic faith. He emigrated to the United States at a young age and converted to Christianity in the early 1980s.

Caner is the President of Brewton-Parker College in Mt. Vernon, GA. He previously served as the Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs at Arlington Baptist College and was the former dean of the Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary and Graduate School of Liberty University.

He has authored and co-authored several books, many of which discuss Islam and Christianity. His book Unveiling Islam, co-authored with his brother Emir, sold more than 200,000 copies and has been translated into six languages. It also received a 2003 Gold Medallion Book award by the Evangelical Christian Publisher's Association.