Patrick Sookhdeo
Dr Patrick Sookhdeo is the director of the Institute for the Study of Islam and Christianity and International Director of the Barnabas Fund.
Sookhdeo was born in what was then British Guyana in 1947. His father was a Hindu who converted to Islam in order to marry his mother. The family migrated to Britain in the early 1960s. By 1969, Sookhdeo had converted to Christianity and begun training for the Anglican priesthood.[1]
In 1989 Sookhdeo founded the Institute for the Study of Islam and Christianity.[2]
He holds a Ph.D. from the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies on the impact of Islam on society. He also holds doctorates from Western Seminary, Portland, Oregon and Nashotah House Episcopal Seminary, Wisconsin.
In 2007 Sookhdeo was:
- a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Defence Academy of the UK, Adjunct Professor of the George C. Marshall European Centre for Security Studies, and Visiting Fellow at Cranfield University, UK. He is an adviser to the British armed forces on Iraq and Afghanistan. He is also the director of the Institute for the Study of Islam and Christianity and of the Barnabas Fund.[3]
In June 1999, Sookhdeo visited Israel as part of a delegation sponsored by the Anglo Israel Association.[4]
Affiliations
References
- ↑ Islam, the West and the need for honesty, by Tony Parkinson, The Age,16 October 2004.
- ↑ Islam, the West and the need for honesty, by Tony Parkinson, The Age,16 October 2004.
- ↑ Biographies, CounterJihad Europa, accessed 21 December 2008.
- ↑ Coventry 'Cross of Nails' Presented To Ecumenical Theological Fraternity, Christians and Israel - Autumn 1999, Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, accessed 21 December 2008.
