Maimul Ahsan Khan


Maimul Ahsan Khan is a Bangladeshi scholar of jurisprudence and comparative law and a professor of law at the Faculty of Law, University of Dhaka. He specializes in jurisprudence, Islamic law, Islam and Muslim culture, political science, human rights, Middle Eastern, South Asian and Oriental studies. He was awarded IIE-SRF fellowship for his academic contribution by the Institute of International Education. In 2012, the IIE Scholar Rescue Fund featured him as one of the persecuted academics in the world.

Biography

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 also holds a master's in international commercial law from the University of California, Davis. Khan began his academic career as a Research Fellow at the U.K. based Islamic Foundation in Markfield, Leicestershire in 1986 and was appointed assistant professor of law at the University of Dhaka in 1990. He became a full professor at the same university in 2007. Khan taught at the University of Illinois-UIUC from 1998-2002, the University of California-Davis and Berkeley from 2002-2006, and the Technical University of Liberec-Czech Republic. He has served as a Fulbright Fellow at the College of Law in University of Illinois-UC and as a country specialist on Afghanistan at Amnesty International. A former Chair of the Department of Law at the University of Dhaka and the Islamic University of Bangladesh at Gazipur, Khan has also served as a Research Fellow at Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies. 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.

Selected works

Khan has authored books and scholarly articles in English, Russian and Bengali. His books include:
;In English
;In Bangla
; Edited
; Translated
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