Amir Hussain

Amir Hussain is a scholar of religion who specializes in the study of Islam. He is a professor in the Department of Theological Studies at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. In 2023 he served as President of the American Academy of Religion. He is the editor-in-chief of the Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam in North America, which was published in 2026. In 2025, he published One God and Two Religions with Fortress Press. He has done other significant publishing work with Oxford University Press, including editing the fifth editions (2018) of two of their main textbooks, World Religions: Western Traditions and World Religions: Eastern Traditions, and the third edition of A Concise Introduction to World Religions..