Abdul Rashid Moten
Abdul Rashid Moten (born February 20, 1947) is a Bangladeshi political scientist, academic, and author who writes about political science, Islamic approaches to politics, Muslim world movements, and governance from an Islamic perspective. He has 42 works in 81 publications across 3 languages, and his book Political Science: An Islamic Perspective is held by nearly 300 libraries.
He earned a BA and MA in political science from the University of Dhaka, an MA in political theory from Villanova University, and a PhD from the University of Alberta. Moten began his career in 1972 at Chittagong University in Bangladesh. In 1976 he joined the University of Alberta as a lecturer, then worked at Bayero University from 1978 to 1992. Since 1992 he has been at International Islamic University Malaysia, where he became a professor in the Department of Political Science.
He was editor of Intellectual Discourse from 2001 to 2008 and is currently the editor of the International Journal of Islamic Thoughts (IJITs). He has written and edited many books and a large number of academic articles.
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