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To: Brumar89 who wrote (40048)	8/6/2013 5:39:51 PM
From: Solon	Respond to of 69300

Aslan's family came to the United States from Tehran in 1979, fleeing the Iranian Revolution. He grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. At the age of 15 he converted to evangelical Christianity. [5] He converted back to Islam the summer before attending Harvard. [6] In the early 1990s, Aslan taught courses at De La Salle High School in Concord, California. Aslan holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in religions from Santa Clara University, a Master of Theological Studies degree from Harvard Divinity School, and a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Iowa's Writers' Workshop, where he was named the Truman Capote Fellow in Fiction. Aslan also received a Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology, focusing in the history of religion, from the University of California, Santa Barbara. [7] [8] [9] His dissertation was titled "Global Jihadism as a Transnational Social Movement: A Theoretical Framework". [10] In August 2000, while serving as the Truman Capote Fellow at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Aslan was named Visiting Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Iowa, becoming the first full-time professor of Islam in the history of the state. [11] Aslan lives in Hollywood, California.