Do you have questions about Islam? 

Explore the controversies associated with this faith, ask questions and receive factual answers.  Join the Rev. William L. Sachs and Dr. Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad for this program at St. Stephen’s Church.

Registration is required and can be done here 

Faculty

Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad, Ph.D., was born in 1948 at sea to Palestinian refugee parents and raised in Pennsylvania. He graduated cum laude from Harvard in 1970 and in 1975 obtained a Ph.D in astronomy and astrophysics from the University of Arizona. He is senior lecturer at the University of Maryland and has taught at Georgetown and Johns Hopkins universities. Dr. Ahmad has lectured on Islam at the Foreign Services Institute and for the Joint Special Operations University’s Middle East Orientation Course. He is President of the Minaret of Freedom Institute, an Islamic think-tank in the Washington, DC area. A popular speaker and writer, he is the author of numerous books and articles. He is also an Islamic chaplain at several hospitals, Imam of the Dar-adh-Dhikr Mosque, President of the Islamic-American Zakat Foundation, and arbitrator for the Coordinating Council of Muslim Organizations in the Washington area.