Ahmet T. Kuru

Ahmet T. Kuru is the director of Center for Islamic and Arabic Studies and a professor of Political Science at San Diego State University. He was a postdoctoral scholar at Columbia University. Kuru is the author of Secularism and State Policies toward Religion: The United States, France, and Turkey (Cambridge University Press, 2009). His recent book, Islam, Authoritarianism, and Underdevelopment, won three awards and was included in Times Literary Supplement’s Books of the Year. It has been translated into Indonesian, Arabic, Persian, Malay, Bengali, Bosnian, French, and Dutch