Reza Aslan

Quick Facts

Full Name	Reza Aslan
Occupation	Teacher
Date Of Birth	May 3, 1972(1972-05-03)
Age	52
Birthplace	Tehran
Country	Iran
Birth City	Tehran Province
Horoscope	Taurus

Reza Aslan Biography

Reza Aslan is one of the most popular and richest Teacher who was born on May 3, 1972 in Tehran, Tehran Province, Iran. His widely translated works, No god but God: Evolution, Origins, and Future of Islam (published 2005) and Zealot, The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth (2013) are the most well-known works of this Iranian-born religious scholar and author.

His maternal aunt, Leila Farouhar had a very successful career as a pop- singer.

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. He attended Del Mar High School in San Jose, and graduated class of 1990. In the early 1990s, Aslan taught courses at De La Salle High School in Concord, California.

In August 2000, while serving as the Truman Capote Fellow at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Aslan was a visiting faculty member in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Iowa.

He moved to Concord, California with his family when he was seven years of age. He married Jessica Jackley, an American entrepreneur. They had two children.

Reza Aslan Net Worth

Reza Aslan is one of the richest Teacher from Iran. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Reza Aslan 's net worth $3 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

After graduating from Santa Clara University he attended Harvard Divinity School, and then earned an MFA (MFA) in Creative Writing at the University of Iowa’s Writers Workshop. Later, he earned a doctorate from the University of California at Santa Barbara in sociology and religious historian.

He began teaching Islamic Studies at the University of Iowa in 2000. Later, he taught creative writing at the University of California, Riverside.

Reza Aslan (Persian: رضا اصلان ‎, IPA: [ˈɾezɒː æsˈlɒːn] ; born May 3, 1972) is an Iranian-American scholar of religious studies, writer, and television host. He has written four books on religion: No God but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam, Beyond Fundamentalism: Confronting Religious Extremism in the Age of Globalization, Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth and God: A Human History.

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Who is Reza Aslan Dating?

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In 2009, Aslan published his second book, How to Win a Cosmic War: God, Globalization, and the End of Terror. The following year, it was rereleased in paperback as Beyond Fundamentalism: Confronting Religious Extremism in the Age of Globalization. The book is both a study of the ideology fueling Al Qaeda, the Taliban and like-minded militants throughout the Muslim world, and an exploration of religious violence in Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The author argues that the United States, by infusing the War on Terror with its own religiously polarizing rhetoric, is fighting a similar war—a war that he asserts cannot be won.

Facts & Trivia

Reza Ranked on the list of most popular Teacher. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Iran. Reza Aslan celebrates birthday on May 3 of every year.

Muslims and Jews in America: Commonalities, Contentions, and Complexities (2011) co-edited with Abraham’s Vision founder Aaron J. Hahn Tapper, is a collection of essays exploring contemporary Jewish-Muslim relations in the United States and the distinct ways in which these two communities interact with one another in that context.

What is Reza Aslan religion?

Reza was raised Shia Muslim, then converted to Christianity — he even became a church youth leader — before converting back to Islam at the behest of Jesuit priests. He says his “faith isn’t these things that I believe — it’s who I am, it’s what I am. And so I can’t see myself without it.

Who is Reza Aslan wife?

Jessica Jackley

Is Reza Aslan a historian?

in sociology from the University of California, Santa Barbara. None of these degrees is in history, so Aslan’s repeated claims that he has “a Ph. D. in the history of religions” and that he is “a historian” are false.

Does Reza Aslan have a PhD?

Aslan holds a B.A. in religious studies from Santa Clara University, a Master of Theological Studies (MTS) from Harvard Divinity School, a Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) in fiction writing from the University of Iowa’s Writers’ Workshop, and a PhD in sociology from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Where was Reza Aslan born?

Tehran, Iran