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University of Bonn.
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Khalid Duran
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In the 1970s, he worked at Pakistan"s Islamic Research Institute and traveled extensively in the Middle East and South Asia. He was a visiting professor at universities in Pakistan, Austria, Germany, Scandinavia, and the United States, teaching at departments of anthropology, history, religion, and sociology. He is the author of five books and numerous articles on Islam, the Middle East, North Africa, and Central and South Asia, covering both history and current affairs
Durán was trained in Middle Eastern languages and Islamic studies in Morocco, Bosnia, and Pakistan.
From 1961-1968, he studied political science and sociology at the Universities of Bonn and Berlin. Durán was a Senior Fellow and Researcher with the German Institute for Middle East Studies (Deutsches Orient-Institut) in Hamburg from 1978-1986.
In 1984-1985 he also worked with the Tokyo-based United Nations University (United Nations University). After 1986, Durán was a visiting professor of Middle East Studies at a number of universities in the United States, including Temple University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania).
American University (Washington, District of Columbia).
University of California, Irvine. University of Louisville, Kentucky. He was the president of the IbnKhaldun Society. According to The Guardian"s Albert Scardino, Duran coined the term "Islamofascism." Malise Ruthven, however, used the word in an article published in The Independent of 8 September 1990 (p 15).
