Professor Clinton Bennet

Clinton Bennett was awarded the PhD in Islamic Studies by Birmingham University in 1990.  He also holds the M.E.d. from Oxford.  An ordained Baptist minister, he has worked as a missionary in Bangladesh, as co-paster of a multi-racial inner city congregation, on the staff of the British Council of Churches and as a College and University chaplain and teacher.  He has written nine books.  He had combined academic study of Islam with participation in interfaith dialogue, serving on several World Council of Churches committees.  He has advised local mosques, chaired school governing bodies and represented an NGO at the UN.