Amir Hussain

Amir Hussain is Professor of Theological Studies at Loyola Marymount University, the Jesuit university in Los Angeles, where he teaches courses on Islam and world religions. He served as President of the American Academy of Religion in 2023, the world’s largest scholarly society for the study of religion. From 2011 to 2015, Amir was the editor of the Journal of the American Academy of Religion, the premier scholarly journal for the study of religion.

The author or editor of seven books and over 60 scholarly articles, he was an advisor for the television series The Story of God with Morgan Freeman, and he appears regularly on Ancient Aliens, History’s Greatest Mysteries with Laurence Fishburne, Holy Marvels with Dennis Quaid, and The UnXplained with William Shatner.