| 15th Oct, 2008 |
POST-AMERICAN CENTURY: THE EMERGENCE OF A NEW
WORLD ORDER? Professor Robert Crane
Muslim scholar and former Advisor to US President Richard Nixon - Sunday 19 0ctober 2008 | 6.30pm
London Muslim Centre – Seminar Room
46 Whitechapel Road, London E1
Nearest tube: Aldgate East / Whitechapel -
ALL WELCOME – FREE ENTRY -
Profile: Prof. Robert Dickson Crane is a Resident Scholar at the
International Institute of Islamic Thought, a co-founding board
member and former Chairman of the Center for Understanding
Islam, and Director for Global Strategy at The Abraham
Federation: A Global Center for Peace through Compassionate
Justice.
He received his Doctor of Laws (J.D.) in 1959 from Harvard Law
School specializing in comparative legal systems and
international investment. In 1962 he co-founded the Center for
Strategic and International Studies. From 1963 to 1968, he
served as Foreign Policy Advisor to Richard Nixon who appointed
him as Deputy Director of the National Security Council in 1969.
In 1981, President Reagan appointed him to be U.S.
Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates, responsible also for
two-tier diplomacy with the various Muslim Brotherhood
movements in the Middle East and North Africa.
From 1982 to the present Prof. Crane has been a full-time
Islamic scholar and activist. He was Principal Da'ii (religious
instructor) at the Islamic Center, Washington, D.C (1983 -1986).
He was Director of Publications at the International Institute of
Islamic Thought from 1986 to 1988. Prof. Crane was a
Founding Member of The American Muslim Council and from
1992 to 1994 served as Director of its Legal Division. In 1993,
he was elected president of the Muslim American Bar
Association, which he founded in order to organize Muslim
participation in the American Bar Association's work on issues of
conscience.
Professor Crane has penned many books and professional
articles on comparative legal systems, global strategy, and
information management. In May 2008 the Global Civilisations
Study Centre awarded him the Global Civilisations Award 2008,
for promoting peace, prosperity, and freedom through the
natural law of compassionate justice as part of the Islamic
contribution to global civilisation.
His principal lifelong hobbies are mountaineering and ultramarathoning,
having been the 8th fastest 100-kilometer runner
(62 miles) in the history of the United States.
Enquiries:
Centre for the Study of Terrorism (CFSOT) info@cfsot.com | 020 8838 0770 - 07713 209 906| www.cfsot.com
Islamic Forum of Europe (IFE) info@islamicforumeurope.com | 020 7456 1062 - 07947 787 222 |islamicforumeurope.com |
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