Waleed El-Ansary is an

Egyptian-American Egyptian Americans () are Americans of partial or full Egyptian ancestry. The 2016 US Census estimated the number of people with Egyptian ancestry at 256,000, most of whom are from Egypt's Christian Orthodox Coptic minority. Egyptian Americans m ...

scholar of

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Islam Islam is an Abrahamic religions, Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the Quran, and the teachings of Muhammad. Adherents of Islam are called Muslims, who are estimated to number Islam by country, 2 billion worldwide and are the world ...

and

Islamic economics Islamic economics () refers to the knowledge of economics or economic activities and processes in terms of Islamic principles and teachings. Islam has a set of specific moral norms and values about individual and social economic behavior. There ...

and the Helal, Hisham and Laila Edris El-Swedey University Chair in Islamic studies at

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Biography

El-Ansary graduated with a

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economics Economics () is a behavioral science that studies the Production (economics), production, distribution (economics), distribution, and Consumption (economics), consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and interac ...

in 1986 from

George Washington University The George Washington University (GW or GWU) is a Private university, private University charter#Federal, federally-chartered research university in Washington, D.C., United States. Originally named Columbian College, it was chartered in 1821 by ...

and received his M.A. in the same discipline from the

University of Maryland The University of Maryland, College Park (University of Maryland, UMD, or simply Maryland) is a public land-grant research university in College Park, Maryland, United States. Founded in 1856, UMD is the flagship institution of the Univ ...

in 1998. He earned his Ph.D. in human sciences in 2006 from George Washington University with a special concentration on

Islamic studies Islamic studies is the academic study of Islam, which is analogous to related fields such as Jewish studies and Quranic studies. Islamic studies seeks to understand the past and the potential future of the Islamic world. In this multidiscipli ...

. Ansary has served as an assistant professor of Islamic studies at the

University of South Carolina The University of South Carolina (USC, SC, or Carolina) is a Public university, public research university in Columbia, South Carolina, United States. Founded in 1801 as South Carolina College, It is the flagship of the University of South Car ...

and was an adjunct professor of

Islamic Economics Islamic economics () refers to the knowledge of economics or economic activities and processes in terms of Islamic principles and teachings. Islam has a set of specific moral norms and values about individual and social economic behavior. There ...

at Cordoba University's Graduate School of Islamic and Social Sciences. He was a research scholar at the Islamic Research Institute in

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, and has also served as a consultant to the Royal Court of Jordan and the

Grand Mufti of Egypt Egypt's Dar al-Ifta ( ) is an Egyptian Islamic advisory, justiciary and governmental body established as a centre for Islam and Islamic legal research in Egypt in 1313 AH / 1895 CE. It offers Muslims religious guidance and advice through the i ...

Works

* The Spiritual Significance of Jihad in the Islamic Approach to Markets and the Environment (2006) * Muslim and Christian Understanding: Theory and Application of A Common Word (2010) * Knowing the Religion of the Other (first published in French as "Connaître la religion de l'Autres" in 2018) with Alexis Blum, Grand Rabbi Emeritus of Neuilly and Bishop Claude Dagens, Bishop of Angouleme (Sponsored by

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) * "Linking Ethics and Economics: The Role of Ijtihad in the Regulation and Correction of Capital Markets" (Occasional Paper) Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding Georgetown University (1999) * "The Economics of Terrorism: How bin Laden is Changing the Rules of the Game" in Islam, Fundamentalism, and the Betrayal of Tradition (2004) * "A perennialist perspective on religion and conflict" in European View (December, 2007) * "Can Our Science and Economics Honor Nature?" in Renovatio (April, 2017) * "Hindu and Islamic Economics: On the Need for a New Economic Paradigm" in the Muslim World, (April, 2017) * Recovering the Islamic Economic Intellectual Heritage: Problems and Possibilities * The Quantum Enigma and the Islamic Sciences of Nature. * The Economics of Clash of Civilizations: Reexamining Religion and Violence

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Official web page at Xavier University
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ansary, Waleed Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American people of Egyptian descent American religion academics Scholars of Islamic banking Xavier University faculty American Muslims 21st-century Muslim theologians George Washington University alumni University System of Maryland alumni Muslim scholars of Islamic studies

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