Ahmad S. Dallal () is a scholar of Islamic studies and an academic administrator. He is the current president of

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Biography

Dallal received his bachelor's degree in engineering from the

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. He worked in the aviation industry before earning his master's and doctorate from

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. Dallal taught at

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, and

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before joining the

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faculty, where he was an associate professor of Arabic and Islamic studies and Chair of Georgetown's Arabic and Islamic Studies department. His research focused on the history of learning and the history of sciences in Islamic societies as well as Islamic thoughts and movements. He delivered the Dwight H. Terry Lectureship at Yale University in 2008, titled ''Islam, Science, and the Challenge of History''. Dallal served as the provost of the

from 2009 to 2015 before returning to teach history at the university. He was named dean of

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in 2017. In 2021, Dallal was named 13th President of

. He is the first Arab to serve as president of the university. Dallal speaks both English and

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, and can also speak Persian, German and French.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dallal, Ahmad S. Living people American university and college faculty deans Presidents of The American University in Cairo Academic staff of the American University of Beirut Georgetown University faculty Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni American University of Beirut alumni Historians of Islam Arab academics Arab scholars Year of birth missing (living people) Deans of Georgetown University in Qatar