Cordoba University
The Cordoba University (Cordoba University) is an Islamic university based in Ashburn (Virginia) in the United States . The university is made up of the Graduate School of Islamic and Social Sciences (GSISS) and the Cordoba School of Professional Studies . The GSISS is part of the United States Department of Defense program for the training of Muslim military chaplains that produced the United States Marine Corps' first Muslim chaplain . The university is the only one in the United States to be a member of the Association of Universities of the Islamic World .
Taha Jabir al-Alwani (1935–2016) was President of Cordoba University and also Dean of the Graduate School of Islamic and Social Sciences .
See also
literature
- United States: Arab Lobby in the United States Handbook: Organization, Operations, Performance . 2015 Edition International Business Publications, USA; ISBN 1-4387-0226-4 ( partial online view )
- Chris Heffelfinger: Radical Islam in America: Salafism's Journey from Arabia to the West . 2011 ( partial online view )
- Barry M. Rubin: Guide to Islamist Movements . ME Sharpe, 2010 Volume 2 ( partial online view )
Web links
- At a Hartford Seminary, a Military Matter by Tim Townsend, The New York Times, October 12, 2003
- americantowns.com: Cordoba University
References and footnotes
- ↑ Barry M. Rubin, p. 581
- ↑ Bangladeshi American Is First Muslim Chaplain in Marine Corps ( Memento from April 26, 2014 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ isesco.org.ma (members)
Coordinates: 39 ° 2 ′ 56.9 ″ N , 77 ° 26 ′ 16.6 ″ W.