Abdullah Antepli is chief representative of Muslim affairs at Duke University and teaches courses on Islam and Muslim cultures at Duke Divinity School. Previously, he was Duke’s first Muslim chaplain, associate director of the Islamic Chaplaincy Program at Hartford Seminary, the first Muslim chaplain at Wesleyan University, and worked in Myanmar (Burma) and Malaysia with the Association of Social and Economic Solidarity with Pacific Countries. He is founder and executive board member of the Association of College Muslim Chaplains, a board member of the Association for College and University Religious Affairs, senior fellow on Jewish-Muslim Relations at the Shalom Hartman Institute, and co-director of the Muslim Leadership Initiative.
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