Muhammed Al-Ahari - University Press Publications

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Al-Ahari was also published by University Presses and these can be found in Islam Outside the Arab World, by David Westerlund; Ingvar Svanberg Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, 1999. ISBN 0-312-22691-8 OCLC: 41355839 where he has a chapter on Islam in Latin America; a Symposium paper presented in Sarajevo, Bosnia on the life and teaching of Imam Kamil Avdich in the book Život i djelo Ćamila Avdića; and a paper in the Symposium papers from the Alevi-Bektashi Conference in Isparta, Turkey. During September 2005 he attended the First Alevi-Bektashi Conference in Isparta,Turkey where he presented a paper on links between Freemasonry and the Bektashi community. The proceedings have been published as a scholarly volume and contains a biographic sketch of Muhammed al-Ahari.

With the Bosnian community in America Muhammed has served as a principal for the Islamic weekend school, librarian, museum director, editor of the community newsleter, and a contributor to an edited volume of articles on the history of Bosnians in Canada and the United States. Muhammed wrote ten of the articles in the coffee table book "A Hundred Years of Bosnians in America"("100 Godina Bošnjaka u Americi"). Chicago: Bosnian American Cultural Association, ©2006. The Bosnians were the first Muslims in the United States to incoporate an Islamic Association in 1906 in Chicago, Illinois.