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.
A.S. Ibrahim | The Saudi crown prince presents himself as modernizing the influential Muslim country
A.S. Ibrahim | Biden’s Iran deal sets a horrible precedent
A.S. Ibrahim | The Muslim call to prayer claims political dominance
A.S. Ibrahim | Don’t write off the United States, and the dollar, just yet
A.S. Ibrahim | Muslim mobs in Pakistan follow a tradition that calls for violence against those who insult Muhammad
A.S. Ibrahim | A new regime in Niger may undermine international antiterrorism efforts
A.S. Ibrahim | Understanding the Taliban and its goals
A.S. Ibrahim | A particular tradition motivates and dominates militant Islam
A.S. Ibrahim | Liberals try to push Muslims to accept an LGBTQ agenda that is fundamentally at odds with their religion
A.S. Ibrahim | Acts of provocation are not the way to critique Islam or win Muslims to Christ