Ahmad Dallal is Dean of Georgetown University in Qatar. Until Summer 2017, he was a professor of history in the Department of History and Archaeology at the American University of Beirut, where he served as Provost from 2009-2015. Dallal has taught at Smith College (1990-1994), Yale University (1994-2000), Stanford University (2000-2003) and Georgetown University (2003-2009). He obtained his PhD in Islamic Studies from Columbia University in 1990, and his BE in mechanical engineering from the American University of Beirut, Lebanon in 1980. Dallal has written and lectured widely on a variety of topics, including the Islamic disciplines of learning in medieval and early modern Islamic societies, the development of traditional and exact Islamic sciences, Islamic medieval thought, the early-modern evolution of Islamic revivalism and intellectual movements, Islamic law, and the causes and consequences of 11 September 2001 attacks. He is the author of An Islamic Response to Greek Astronomy: Kitab Ta‘dil Hay’at al-Aflak of Sadr al-Shari‘a (1995); Islam, Science and the Challenge of History (2012); The Political Theology of ISIS: Prophets, Messiahs and the Eradication of the Greyzone (2017); and Islam without Europe – Traditions of Reform in Eighteenth Century Islamic Thought (2018).
