Aminah Al-Deen

Aminah Al-Deen

Aminah Al-Deen

Research Associate Professor

Dr. Aminah Beverly (McCloud) Al-Deen is professor emerita of Islamic Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at DePaul University. In 2006, she founded the United States’ first undergraduate baccalaureate program in Islamic World Studies. She is the former Editor in Chief of the Journal of Islamic Law & Culture. 

Dr. Al-Deen is a Senior Fulbright Scholar, host of Critical Talk a Muslim Network TV production, executive board member of IMAN (Inner City Muslim Action Network), board member of Soundvision, Muslim Mental Health, Muslim Arc, Greenwood Policy Institute and the American editor for the Muslim Minorities in the West Series for Brill Publishers. Dr. Al-Deen is also the Project Director and Primary Investigator of the Black-American Muslim Internationalism Project (BAMI).

Selected Publications

A Question of Faith for Muslim Inmates. Kazi Publications, 1999.

African American Islam. London, Routledge, 1995.

An Introduction to Islam in the 21st Century. Oxford, Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.

Transnational Muslims in American Society. Gainesville, University Press of Florida, Cop, 2006.

History of Arab Americans: Exploring Diverse Roots. Westport, Greenwood Press, 2018.