Between May 26 and 29, 2010 British Council in Bosnia and Herzegovina organized a series of lectures and discussions on the Representation of Islam in Western Thought by Dr. Ian Almond, Associate Professor at the Georgia State University. One of the lectures titled „Muslims, Protestants and Peasants: Ottoman Hungary 1526-1683“ was held at the IUS Amphitheater on the ground floor on Thursday, May 27, 2010.
Dr. Almond is the author of four books: Sufism and Deconstruction (Routledge, 2004), The New Orientalists: Postmodern Representations of Islam (I.B.Tauris, 2007), a general military history of Muslim-Christian alliances Two Faiths, One Banner (Harvard University Press/ I. B. Tauris, 2009) and History of Islam in German Thought From Leibniz to Nietzsche (Routledge, 2009). His books have been translated into Arabic, Korean, Turkish, Persian and Indonesian.






