Profile

Akeel Bilgrami

• Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy
  Committee on Global Thought
  Columbia University

Akeel Bilgrami is the Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University and the Director of Columbia's Heyman Center for the Humanities. He studied at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar and before that at Elphinstone College, Bombay.  He has a Ph.D from the University of Chicago.  His books include "Belief and Meaning", "Self-Knowledge and Resentment" and the forthcoming "Politics and the Moral Psychology of Identity" with Harvard University Press.   He is at present writing a book called "What is a Muslim?" which is on religion and secularism in the global context, with a special focus on Islam for Princeton University Press and a small book on Gandhi's thought and its relevance for today for Columbia University Press.   He has a longer term project on 'Practical Reason', that is to say, the notion of rationality in Ethics and Politics.