Robert Dickson Crane
Robert Dickson Crane (born March 26, 1929 in Cambridge , Massachusetts , USA ) is an American lawyer and leading Muslim activist. In the area of US foreign policy , he held several advisory functions, in particular for Richard Nixon . He is one of the founders of the Center for Strategic and International Studies and the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT).
biography
education
During a stay in post-war Germany from 1948 onwards, Crane began studying the sociology of religion at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . After returning to the United States, he received a BA at Northwestern University in Evanston and then a Juris Doctor at Harvard Law School in Cambridge. During his studies there, he founded the Harvard International Law Journal , a biannual academic journal for international law. In 1960 he became the Bar Association ( Bar association ) of the District of Columbia approved.
Political career
In 1962 he was one of the founders of the CSIS , a non-partisan foreign policy think tank in Washington, DC, alongside Admiral Arleigh Burke and Ambassador David M. Abshire . In 1966 he left this position and became director of the Hudson Institute under the direction of Herman Kahn .
From the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 to preparations for the US presidential election in 1968 , Crane was the principal foreign policy advisor to presidential candidate Richard Nixon . In January 1969, shortly after Nixon's election as US president, Crane was named deputy director of the US National Security Council. However, he only kept this post for one day because he was dismissed at the instigation of Henry Kissinger . He was then assistant to Elliot L. Richardson in the US State Department .
At the request of the US State Department, he was advisor to the Treasury Secretary of Bahrain for one year from 1976 . In 1981 he was appointed by President Ronald Reagan as the first Muslim US ambassador to the United Arab Emirates . However, due to the opposition of Alexander Haig , this appointment was withdrawn.
Muslim activist
Since the early 1980s, Crane has been active almost exclusively as a Muslim activist. From 1983 to 1986 he headed the Islamic Mission Department at the Islamic Center of Washington . In 1986 he joined IIIT as Director of Publications and was one of the founders of the American Muslim Council . Together with Charles E. Butterworth , he was one of the first advisory boards of the Minaret of Freedom Institute , an Islamic libertarian organization founded in 1993 in Bethesda , Maryland .
On January 1, 2012, Crane received a professorship from the Qatar Foundation and became director of a newly established research center at the Qatar Faculty of Islamic Studies (QFIS), which deals with the origins and future possibilities of the so-called Arab Spring .
Individual evidence
- ^ Encyclopedia of Muslim-American History , p. 133.
- ^ Encyclopedia of Muslim-American History , p. 132.
- ↑ On the Education City Campus in Doha - cf. architonic.com .
literature
- Encyclopedia of Muslim-American History . Ed .: Edward E. Curtis IV. Facts on File, New York 2010. ISBN 978-0-8160-7575-1 . Online partial view
Web links
- Compassionate Justice: Source of Convergence between Science and Religion The American Muslim, June 9, 2007
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Crane, Robert Dickson |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American lawyer and Muslim activist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 26, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cambridge , Massachusetts , USA |