Who Will Lead American Islam? with Javad Hashmi

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A great number of organizations to traditionalist, modernist, and Islamist to compete to lead the highly disparate American Muslim community. Who is gaining, who is slipping behind? As Middle Eastern influence diminishes, is a new, uniquely American Islam emerging? What is at stake?

Javad Hashmi is director of research and strategic communications at the Los Angeles-based Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC). He specializes in Islamic studies, with a focus on Qur’anic studies, Islamic intellectual history, and religious violence. Mr. Hashmi holds a BA from UC-Berkeley, an MA from Harvard, and is currently a PhD candidate at Harvard.