162 CONSULTANT TO JORDAN AND EGYPT GOVERNMENTS TO SPEAK

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Oct. 29, 2007
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CONSULTANT TO JORDAN AND EGYPT GOVERNMENTS TO SPEAK
Waleed El-Ansary to Address Topic of Religions and Spirituality Around the World

(MURFREESBORO) – Dr. Waleed El-Ansary, professor of religious studies at the University of South Carolina, will speak on “Bridging the Gaps of Global Religions and Spirituality” at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 31, in MTSU’s James Union Building. The public and the media are welcome to attend.
His research focuses on the relationship among religion, science and economics. “As an expert in interfaith dialogue, he is a consultant to the Royal Court of Jordan and the Grand Mufti of Egypt,” Dr. Allen Hibbard, director of MTSU’s Middle East Center and professor of English, says.
El-Ansary’s publications include Not by Bread Alone: Lectures of E.F. Schumacher (forthcoming), The Quantum Enigma and Islamic Sciences of Nature: Implications for Islamic Economic Theory, and A Perennialist Perspective on Religion and Conflict.
Hibbard says El-Ansary has degrees in human sciences, Islamic studies and economics from George Washington University, where he worked closely with Dr. Seyyed Hossein Nasr, one of the leading Muslim philosophers of our time.
El-Ansary’s address is co-sponsored by the Middle East Center in conjunction with the Third Biennial International Conference on Cultural Diversity. For more information, contact Hibbard at 615-494-8809 or ahibbard@mtsu.edu.

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