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Taj Hashmi Profile

Dr Taj Hashmi is a retired History, Islam, and Security Studies professor at the APCSS (US DoD and State Department-run military college) in Honolulu, Hawaii. He was born in 1948 in Assam, India, and was raised in Bangladesh. He holds a PhD in modern South Asian History from the University of Western Australia and a Master's and BA (Hons) in Islamic History & Culture from Dhaka University. He did his post-doctoral research at the Centre for International Studies (CIS), Oxford, and Monash University (Australia). Since 1987, he has been a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society (FRAS). He reviews manuscripts for several publishers, including Oxford, SAGE, and Routledge. He has authored six books, scores of academic papers, and more than a couple of hundred popular essays and newspaper articles/op-eds on various aspects of history, politics, society, politics, culture, Islam, terrorism, counter-terrorism and security issues in South Asia, Middle East, the Asia-Pacific, and North America. He regularly comments on current world affairs on the BBC, Voice of America, and other media outlets. His immediate past assignment was at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee, where he taught Criminal Justice & Security Studies (2011-2018).

Before that, he was a Professor of Security Studies at the US Department of Defense, College of Security Studies at the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies (APCSS) in Honolulu, Hawaii (2007-2011). He started his teaching career in 1972 as a lecturer in History at Chittagong University, and after a year, joined Dhaka University (Bangladesh) and taught Islamic History & Culture (1973-1981) before moving to Australia for his PhD. Afterwards, he taught History (South Asia and Middle East) at the National University of Singapore (1989-1998) before joining Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) as Dean of Liberal Arts & Sciences (1998-2002). Then he joined the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver (Canada) as a Visiting Professor in Asian Studies for two years (2003-2005) and worked as an adjunct professor of History for a year at Simon Fraser University in Canada (2005-2006).

 

His Global Jihad has been translated into Hindi and Marathi. His Women and Islam was a best-seller in Asian Studies and was awarded the Justice Ibrahim Gold Medal by the Asiatic Society of Bangladesh.

 

He is a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain (FRAS) since 1997.

 

He lives in Toronto (Canada). He is a trained historian and cultural anthropologist. He writes newspaper columns and articles on contemporary issues in South Asia, the Middle East and the world. He is a regular commentator on current issues on YouTube.

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