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12/19/08
Story by Peggy Graham

Professor of Islamic history to speak at JCCC

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. – John Voll, professor of Islamic history and associate director of the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University, will speak about the Muslim Political Heritage: Islamic States from Past to Present from 1-3:30 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 9, in the Hudson Auditorium,  Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Johnson County Community College. 

Voll graduated from Dartmouth College and received his PhD degree from Harvard University. He has lived in Cairo, Beirut and Sudan and has traveled widely in the Muslim world. He is co-author, with John L. Esposito, of Islam and Democracy and Makers of Contemporary Islam and is editor, author or co-author of six additional books. 

He is a past president of the Middle East Studies Association and also of the New England Historical Association. He was the chair of the program committee for the 1999 annual meeting of the American Historical Association. In 1991, he received a Presidential Medal in recognition for scholarship on Islam from President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt. He has published numerous articles and book chapters on modern Islamic and Sudanese history.  

For more information, contact Carolyn Kadel, program facilitator, International Education, JCCC, 913-469-8500, ext. 3496, or e-mail, ckadel@jccc.edu.