GOD AND ISLAMIC PERSPECTIVE

Born in Bangladesh, Salahuddin Ahmed studied Law at the University of Dhaka and King’s College of the University of London. He is a barrister of Lincoln’s Inn and the Supreme Court of New South Wales, Australia. He taught law in the United Kingdom in the early seventies and later at the Law School of the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia for 25 years. In 1999 and 2001, he taught law as a Visiting Professor at the Law School of the University of North Carolina, United States. Salahuddin Ahmed has also presented many papers in seminars and conferences in Australia and Bangladesh and has written numerous articles in academic and professional journals of the United Kingdom, Australia and Bangladesh. He is author of a number of books, including A Dictionary of Muslim Names (London: Hurst & Company and New York University Press), Islam Basic Beliefs (Kuala Lumpur: A.S. Noordeen) and Dictionary of Arabic and Persian words used in Bengali (Dhaka). He is a contributor to the ‘Muslim Names’ section of the OxCord Dictionary of American Family Names and is a co-author of the chapter on ‘Agency’ in the Australian Commentary on Halsbury’s Laws of England (Sydney: Butterworths).