Akbar Ahmed
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Akbar Salahuddin Ahmed, is a Pakistani-American academic, author, poet, playwright, filmmaker and former diplomat. He currently is a professor of International Relations and holds the Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies at the American University, School of International Service in Washington, D.C. Akbar Ahmed served as the Pakistan High Commissioner to the UK and Ireland. He currently is a Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center.
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Published Works
- Regulation of placental vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and placenta growth factor (PIGF) and soluble Flt-1 by oxygen--a review. (2000) (342)
- Vascular endothelial growth factor receptor-1 modulates vascular endothelial growth factor-mediated angiogenesis via nitric oxide. (2001) (301)
- Colocalisation of vascular endothelial growth factor and its Flt-1 receptor in human placenta. (1995) (258)
- Vascular endothelial growth factor receptor localization and activation in human trophoblast and choriocarcinoma cells. (1994) (258)
- A Quiet Violence: View from a Bangladesh Village. (1984) (207)
- Hypoxia down-regulates placenta growth factor, whereas fetal growth restriction up-regulates placenta growth factor expression: molecular evidence for "placental hyperoxia" in intrauterine growth restriction. (1999) (206)
- Localisation of placenta growth factor (PIGF) in human term placenta. (1996) (193)
- Angiopoietin-1 and angiopoietin-2 activate trophoblast Tie-2 to promote growth and migration during placental development. (2000) (182)
- Role of VEGF receptor-1 (Flt-1) in mediating calcium-dependent nitric oxide release and limiting DNA synthesis in human trophoblast cells. (1997) (172)
- Postmodernism and Islam: Predicament and Promise (1993) (152)
- Increased expression of placenta growth factor in proliferative diabetic retinopathy. (1998) (143)
- Immunolocalisation of vascular endothelial growth factor in human endometrium. (1994) (130)
- Hemeoxygenase-1 inhibits human myometrial contractility via carbon monoxide and is upregulated by progesterone during pregnancy. (1998) (121)
- Cellular localization of AT1 receptor mRNA and protein in normal placenta and its reduced expression in intrauterine growth restriction. Angiotensin II stimulates the release of vasorelaxants. (1998) (119)
- Angiogenesis and intrauterine growth restriction. (2000) (116)
- Pathogenic mechanisms in pulmonary fibrosis: collagen-induced migration inhibition factor production and cytotoxicity mediated by lymphocytes. (1976) (114)
- Pukhtun Economy and Society : Traditional Structure and Economic Development in a Tribal Society (1981) (106)
- The Thistle and the Drone: How America's War on Terror Became a Global War on Tribal Islam (2013) (104)
- Immunohistochemical localization of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and its two specific receptors, Flt-1 and KDR, in the porcine placenta and non-pregnant uterus. (1996) (104)
- Generosity and Jealousy: The Swat Pukhtun of Northern Pakistan. (1982) (93)
- Jinnah, Pakistan and Islamic Identity: The Search for Saladin (1997) (91)
- Binding Site (2003) (79)
- Localization of the angiotensin II and its receptor subtype expression in human endometrium and identification of a novel high-affinity angiotensin II binding site. (1995) (79)
- Islam Under Siege: Living Dangerously in a Post- Honor World (2003) (76)
- Colocalization of acidic and basic fibroblast growth factor (FGF) in human placenta and the cellular effects of bFGF in trophoblast cell line JEG-3. (1994) (74)
- VEGF via VEGF receptor-1 (Flt-1) mimics preeclamptic plasma in inhibiting uterine blood vessel relaxation in pregnancy: implications in the pathogenesis of preeclampsia. (1999) (69)
- Millennium and Charisma Among Pathans : A Critical Essay in Social Anthropology (1978) (68)
- Discovering Islam: Making Sense of Muslim History and Society. (1989) (68)
- Individualism and Equality [and Comments and Replies] (1986) (67)
- Fibroblast growth factor receptor-1 is a critical component for endometrial remodeling: localization and expression of basic fibroblast growth factor and FGF-R1 in human endometrium during the menstrual cycle and decreased FGF-R1 expression in menorrhagia. (1997) (62)
- Vascular endothelial growth factor stimulates protein kinase C-dependent phospholipase D activity in endothelial cells. (1996) (59)
- Localization of mRNA for basic fibroblast growth factor in human placenta. (1994) (58)
- Postmodernism and Islam (1992) (58)
- Ontogeny of hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) and its receptor (c-met) in human placenta: reduced HGF expression in intrauterine growth restriction. (1998) (57)
- Islam Today: A Short Introduction to the Muslim World (1999) (56)
- Activation of functional oxytocin receptors stimulates cell proliferation in human trophoblast and choriocarcinoma cell lines. (2001) (56)
- Bombay Films: The Cinema as Metaphor for Indian Society and Politics (1992) (55)
- Localization, quantification, and activation of plateletactivating factor receptor in human endometrium during the menstrual cycle: PAF stimulates NO, VEGF, and FAKpp125 (1998) (53)
- Parathyroid hormone-related protein in human term placenta and membranes. (1994) (51)
- ‘Ethnic cleansing’: A metaphor for our time? (1995) (50)
- Islam, globalization, and postmodernity (1996) (49)
- Expression of VEGF-C and activation of its receptors VEGFR-2 and VEGFR-3 in trophoblast. (2001) (47)
- Vascular endothelial growth factor receptor-2-mediated mitogenesis is negatively regulated by vascular endothelial growth factor receptor-1 in tumor epithelial cells. (2001) (47)
- Localisation of hepatocyte growth factor and its receptor (c-met) protein and mRNA in human term placenta. (1996) (45)
- Ibn Khaldun's understanding of civilizations and the dilemmas of Islam and the West Today (2002) (45)
- Basic FGF activates phospholipase D in endothelial cells in the absence of inositol-lipid hydrolysis. (1994) (40)
- Tie-2 is expressed on thyroid follicular cells, is increased in goiter, and is regulated by thyrotropin through cyclic adenosine 3',5'-monophosphate. (2001) (39)
- Resistance and control in Pakistan (1991) (38)
- Dual role of angiotensin II in the human endometrium. (1996) (38)
- Pakistan Society: Islam, Ethnicity and Leadership in South Asia (1987) (37)
- Journey into Islam: The Crisis of Globalization (2007) (37)
- Can Pakistan Survive? The Death of a State. (1984) (37)
- Activation of protein kinase C is required for oxytocin-induced contractility in human pregnant myometrium. (1996) (35)
- Compartmentalization and cyclic variation of immunoreactivity of renin and angiotensin converting enzyme in human endometrium throughout the menstrual cycle. (1997) (34)
- Toward Islamic Anthropology: Definition, Dogma, And Directions (1986) (28)
- Functional platelet-activating factor receptors linked to inositol lipid hydrolysis, calcium mobilization and tyrosine kinase activity in the human endometrial HEC-1B cell line. (1994) (27)
- Millennium and Charisma Among Pathans (1976) (27)
- Journey into America: The Challenge of Islam (2010) (27)
- Platelet‐activating factor stimulates phospholipase C activity in human endometrium (1992) (27)
- Pukhtun economy and society (1980) (25)
- Islam in Tribal Societies : From the Atlas to the Indus (1986) (24)
- Immunohistochemical localization of parathyroid hormone-related protein (PTHrP) in human term placenta and membranes. (1994) (23)
- Expression of angiotensin II and its receptor subtypes in endometrial hyperplasia: a possible role in dysfunctional menstruation. (1996) (22)
- Platelet-activating factor mediates phosphatidylcholine hydrolysis by phospholipase D in human endometrium. (1992) (21)
- Activation of phospholipase A2 and phospholipase C by endothelin-1 in human endometrium. (1992) (19)
- Religion and politics in Muslim society (1983) (19)
- After Terror: Promoting Dialogue Among Civilizations (2005) (19)
- Activation of Platelet-activating Factor (PAF) Receptor Stimulates Nitric Oxide (NO) Release Via Protein Kinase C-α in HEC-1B Human Endometrial Epithelial Cell Line (2000) (18)
- Living Islam: From Samarkand to Stornoway (1993) (17)
- : The Pathan Unarmed: Opposition & Memory in the North West Frontier (2005) (16)
- Benazir Bhutto (1953‐2007) (2008) (16)
- “Dubai chalo”: Problems in the ethnic encounter between Middle Eastern and South Asian Muslim societies (1984) (16)
- Religion and politics in Muslim society : order and conflict in Pakistan (1985) (16)
- Defining Islamic Anthropology (1984) (15)
- Postmodernist Perceptions of Islam: Observing the Observer (1991) (15)
- The endometrium: prostaglandins and intracellular signalling at implantation. (1992) (14)
- Khuluqiyah intelligence as righteous in the behavior and honorable in smart campus perspective (2018) (13)
- Community and Consensus in Islam: Muslim Representation in Colonial India, 1860–1947. By Farzana Shaikh. South Asian Studies 42. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 1989. Pp. xiv, 257. (1991) (13)
- The conceit of innocence : losing the conscience of the West in the war against Bosnia (1997) (13)
- Ibn Khaldun and Anthropology: The Failure of Methodology in the Post 9/11 World1 (2005) (10)
- Nomadism as Ideological Expression: The Case of the Gomal Nomads (1982) (10)
- Social and economic change in the Tribal Areas, 1972-1976 (1977) (10)
- Al-Beruni: The First Anthropologist (1984) (9)
- Death in Islam: The Hawkes Bay Case (1986) (9)
- The Arab connection: Emergent models of social structure among Pakistani tribesmen (1981) (9)
- The role of platelet-activating factor and its receptor in endometrial receptivity. (1996) (8)
- Oestradiol-17 beta modulates PAF-evoked phospholipase D activity but not inositide-lipid hydrolysis in human endometrial cell line, HEC-1B. (1995) (8)
- Myth and Mobilization in Revolutionary Iran: The Use of the Friday Congregational Sermon (1996) (8)
- Activation of human endometrial phospholipase D by bradykinin. (1995) (8)
- An aspect of the colonial encounter in the North‐West Frontier Province (1978) (7)
- Journey into Islam (2007) (7)
- Two Muslim intellectuals in the postmodern West (2003) (7)
- Hello, Hollywood: Your Images Affect Muslims Everywhere (2008) (7)
- Pukhtun Economy and Society (Routledge Revivals) : Traditional Structure and Economic Development in a Tribal Society (2013) (6)
- Guardians of the Khaibar Pass : the social organisation and history of the Afridis of Pakistan (1985) (6)
- Embracing the ‘other’ (1998) (6)
- Journey into Europe: Islam, Immigration, and Identity (2018) (6)
- A faith for all seasons: Islam and Western modernity and Political Islam: religion and politics in the Arab world (1991) (5)
- The impact of the Afghan Refugees on ethnicity and politics in Baluchistan (Pakistan) (1990) (5)
- Fowlmere: roundheads, Rambo and rivalry in an English village today (1994) (5)
- The SAGE Handbook of Islamic Studies (2010) (5)
- Pakistan : the social sciences' perspective (1991) (4)
- Migration, Death and Martyrdom in Rural Pakistan (1991) (4)
- Identity and ideology in Pakistan: An interview (1989) (4)
- The politics of Ethnicity in Pakistan society (1990) (4)
- Localization of bradykinin type II receptor mRNA in human endometrium. (1996) (4)
- “Dialogue and the Echo-boom of Terror: Religious Women’s Voices After 9/11” in After Terror edited by Akbar Ahmed and Brian Forst (2005) (4)
- Afterword: A Reflection on the Crucial Importance of Interfaith Dialogue (2018) (3)
- The Thistle and the Drone (2013) (3)
- Afghanistan: The Great Game Revisited—A Review Article (1981) (3)
- Anthropology 'Comes Out'? (1991) (3)
- Millennium and Charisma Among Pathans (Routledge Revivals) : A Critical Essay in Social Anthropology (2012) (3)
- Aid and the Great Game in Asia (1982) (2)
- The Quaid : Jinnah and the story of Pakistan (1997) (2)
- Localisation of bradykinin-like immunoreactivity and modulation of bradykinin-evoked phospholipase D activity by 17 beta-oestradiol in human endometrium. (1995) (2)
- How to Aid Afghan Refugees (1980) (2)
- Models and method (2004) (2)
- In Afghanistan's Shadow: Baluch Nationalism and Soviet Temptations . By Selig S. Harrison. New York: Carnegie Endowment, 1981. 228 pp. Maps, Photographs. N.p. (1982) (1)
- Tribes and states in central and South Asia (1980) (1)
- South Asia Roots of Decline (1990) (1)
- Religious presence and symbolism in Pukhtun society / Akbar S. Ahmed. (1981) (1)
- Memories of Partition 1947 (1990) (1)
- Constructive dialogue: A Muslim and Jewish perspective on dialogue between Islam and Judaism (2016) (1)
- Can Pakistan be Japan? Social factors in economic development (1985) (1)
- Understanding People: The Exhibition as Teacher (1991) (1)
- Transnational Muslim Politics: Reimagining the Umma. By Peter Mandaville. New York: Routledge, 2001. 235p. $85.00 (2003) (1)
- Ladislav Holy: Kinship, honour and solidarity: cousin marriage in the Middle East . 143 pp. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1989. £25. (1990) (1)
- Islam and the District Paradigm [Comments and Reply] (1983) (1)
- Islam Under Siege (2020) (1)
- Response to Open Letter and Call from Muslim Religious Leaders to Christian Leaders, Expressionofislamicmission(dàwa) Lovingyourneighbourinislam Introduction:thecontrastwithchristianity (1)
- Heroes of the Age: Moral Fault Lines on the Afghan Frontier , by David B. Edwards. 307 pages, maps, notes, glossary, bibliography, index. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1996. $20.00 (Paper) ISBN 0-520-20063-2 (1998) (1)
- Media Mongols at the Gates of Baghdad (2008) (1)
- Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF): a putative initiator of labour (1996) (1)
- The localisation and expression of hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) and its receptor, c‐met, in human placenta from the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd trimesters and in the presence of severe IUGR (1998) (1)
- Specific suppression of in vitro generated cell-mediated cytotoxicity by ascites fluid from l1210 bearing dba/2 mice. Abstr. (1979) (1)
- Social Factors in Economic Development : Can Pakistan Be Japan? (Part I) (1985) (0)
- Books Received (1977) (0)
- The economic and social organization of selected Mohmand Pukhtun settlements (1978) (0)
- iew Postmodernism and Islam : Predicament and Promise (2020) (0)
- FOR ADAM AND IBRAHIM (2004) (0)
- From Media Mongols to Muslim Rambos (2006) (0)
- Globalization's New Left - Spring 2006 (2008) (0)
- Role of non-h-2 linked genes in the growth of l-1210 ascites in vivo. Abstr. (1979) (0)
- Khan, Aisha (ed.). Islam and the Americas. ix, 348 pp., illus., bibliogrs. Gainesville: Univ. Press of Florida, 2015. £77.95 (cloth) (2019) (0)
- Christopher Shackle (ed.): Urdu and Muslim South Asia: studies in honour of Ralph Russell, xi, 205 pp. London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1989. £10. (1990) (0)
- Islam & the West: A Clash of Civilizations? (2015) (0)
- Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Report by Saba Mahmood Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016. 248 pp. (2016) (0)
- Models and method in anthropology (2012) (0)
- Review of : Resistance and Control in Pakistan (1992) (0)
- History as an expression of agnatic rivalry (2004) (0)
- Living Islam: From Samarkand to Stornoway@@@Living Islam: What it Means to be a Muslim in Today's World (1996) (0)
- Living Islam: From Samarkand to Stornoway@@@Living Islam: What it Means to be a Muslim in Today's World (1996) (0)
- A taste for freedom: The case of the Gomal nomads (1982) (0)
- THAWING OUR FROZEN RELATIONSHIP (2013) (0)
- Islam and the District Paradigm: Emergent Trends in Contemporary Muslim Society (1983) (0)
- Making the World Safe for Interdependence ‐ Spring 2002 (2008) (0)
- Tribal Prism of the Boston Bombing (2013) (0)
- Gender, Revenge, Mutation, and War (2021) (0)
- Jefferson and Jinnah: Humanist Ideals and the Mythology of Nation-Building (2004) (0)
- A note on Sufic orders and Islamic revivalism in the nineteenth century (2012) (0)
- Activation of platelet activating factor receptor stimulates nitric oxide release in a human endometrial epithelial cell line via protein kinase C-dependant pathway. (1996) (0)
- Pieces of green, the sociology of change in Pakistan, 1964-1974 (1977) (0)
- Books Received (2007) (0)
- Reply to Hanifi (1986) (0)
- Religion & Politics in Muslim Society: Order & Conflict in Pakistan (1985) (0)
- Islam and segmentary societies: the problem of definition (2004) (0)
- Waziristan: land, lineage, and culture (2004) (0)
- The political agent as anthropologist (2004) (0)
- The World of Islam (2011) (0)
- The Swat Pathan misunderstood (2012) (0)
- A strategy for cooperation : a study of the North-West Frontier Province (1973) (0)
- Emergent Trends in Moslem Tribal Society: the Wazir Movement of the Mullah of Wana in North-Western Frontier Province of Pakistan (1984) (0)
- Economic development and reinforcement of ideology in Waziristan (2004) (0)
- Swat in the eye of the storm: Interview with Akbar Ahmed (2009) (0)
- IRRESPONSIBLE ACTION (2007) (0)
- Indian Muslims Since Independence , by Omar Khalidi. 246 pages, tables, maps, notes, appendix, index. New Delhi, 1995. (Cloth) ISBN 0-7069-9570-8 (1995) (0)
- The anthropologist as political agent (2004) (0)
- Strategy and conflict in Waziristan (2004) (0)
- Leadership Interview with Akbar Ahmed (2015) (0)
- The Clash of Civilizations (2009) (0)
- Afghan Refugees, Aid and Anthropologists (1980) (0)
- More on Views of the Swat Pathans (1978) (0)
- Order, ideology, and morality in Waziristan (2004) (0)
- PREFACE TO THE REVISED EDITION (2004) (0)
- Islam and the West: Clash or Dialogue of Civilisations? (2016) (0)
- Book Review (1999) (0)
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