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Asad Q. Ahmed is a Professor of Arabic Islamic Studies and the Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He obtained his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2007. His research focuses on postclassical rationalist disciplines in Islam from approximately 1200 to 1900 CE, including areas such as history, logic, physics, astronomy, and legal theories. Ahmed has authored several significant publications including 'Religious Elite in Early Islamic Hijaz' (Oxford, 2011), 'Avicenna’s Deliverance: Logic' (2011), and 'Palimpsests: Logic Commentary from Muslim India' (UC Press, 2021). His scholarly contributions are widely recognized, and he is known for exploring the complexities of Islamic rationality within historical contexts.
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