A.S. was born and raised in Egypt and holds two doctorates with an emphasis on Islam and its history. He is a professor of Islamic studies and director of the Jenkins Center for the Christian Understanding of Islam at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He has taught at several schools in the United States and the Middle East and authored A Concise Guide to the Life of Muhammad (Baker Academic, 2022), Conversion to Islam (Oxford University Press, 2021), Basics of Arabic (Zondervan 2021), A Concise Guide to the Quran (Baker Academic, 2020), and The Stated Motivations for the Early Islamic Expansion (Peter Lang, 2018), among others.
BOOKS | Douglas Murray examines the conflict between Israel and Hamas
A.S. Ibrahim | Premature recognition of a “State of Palestine” would embolden extremists
A.S. Ibrahim | Syria’s Islamist government fails to protect minorities—again
A.S. Ibrahim | The Abraham Accords and Trump’s vision for peace
A.S. Ibrahim | Britain’s politicians may try to ignore the grooming gang scandal—but it hasn’t gone away
QUEST | A.S. Ibrahim | Three books that shaped my thinking
A.S. Ibrahim | Recent attacks on Christians in Nigeria and Syria stem from jihadist strategy and apathetic governments
A.S. Ibrahim | The Shiite socialist’s primary win says a lot about the genius—and naïveté— of voters
A.S. Ibrahim | The president has good reasons to remove sanctions, but he must be cautious
