Maimul Ahsan Khan

Biography Origin and education Born on December 22, 1954, in Chandpur, Bangladesh, Khan studied in the former Soviet Union and obtained his LLM with honors in 1981 and a PhD in jurisprudence in 1985 from Tashkent State University. He received a master's in international commercial law from the University of California, Davis. He has also served as the Dean of the Faculty of Social Science at Leading University. He was awarded IIE-SRF fellowship by the Institute of International Education (IIE). He was one of the judges of the international symbolic court held at Imam Sadiq University in Tehran that sentenced Myanmar's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi to fifteen years in jail for her support for an ethnic cleansing campaign against the country's minority Rohingya Muslims.

Views According to Ali Riaz, Khan is sympathetic to Islamists. Arthur Klinghoffer states in a review of Khan's Human Rights in the Muslim World that Khan supports a moderate interpretation of the Quran and rejects what some refer to as "extreme" or "political" Islam. He believes that legal ideas dating back to the Prophet Mohammed's time have been distorted by governments and colonization, resulting in what is presently known as "Muslim law" rather than pure "Islamic law" in practice. He refers to Muslim extremists as "Muslim fundamentalists". Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im called his Human Rights in the Muslim World an "exposition and analysis of the state of human rights in certain parts, mainly Asian, of the Muslim world", while criticizing it for failing to offer "a theory or coherent methodology for promoting human rights". Khan hopes to encourage dialogue and cross-cultural understanding among the world's nations by eradicating sectarianism, particularly from Muslim societies.

Selected works Khan has authored books and scholarly articles in English, Russian and Bengali. His books include:

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