State of Qatar, to teach a course on "How Policy is Made in Washington". When he arrived on January 1, 2012, he was reassigned to be a full professor and Director of a new research center in the Qatar Faculty of Islamic Studies, entitled the Center for the Study of Islamic Thought and Muslim Societies, charged with studying the origins, state of the art, and future scenarios for the so-called Arab Spring. On January 1, 2014, Crane was appointed Professor Emeritus for 18 months to complete his four-volume textbook, Islam and Muslims: Essence and Practice, as a model and part of a proposal for a Holistic Education Center to produce edited textbooks on Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Indigenous Religions by spiritual scholars in these world religions. Publications Crane has co-authored more than a dozen books, including: Détente: Cold War Strategies in Transition, Dulles and Crane, CSIS, Praeger, 1965 Planning the Future of Saudi Arabia: A Model for Achieving National Priorities, Praeger, 1978 Shaping the Future: Challenge and Response, Tapestry, 1997. These books have been augmented by numerous monographs, including the following produced under the Islamic Institute for Strategic Studies before the September 11, 2001 attacks: Meta-law: An Islamic Policy Paradigm, 49 pages The Grand Strategy of Justice, 83 pages Kosovo and Chechnya: Products of the Past, Harbingers of the Future, 32 pages The Role of Religion in America, 24 pages The Muslim Challenge in America and the World, 35 pages As a scholar honored in the annual publication, the Muslim500 most influential Muslims in the world, he also contributes an annual "state of the world" essay, including the following: 2012 - U.S. Foreign Policy in the Muslim World, Justice as Grand Strategy: The Missing Dimension in American Foreign Policy Toward the Muslim World. 2013-2014 - Flameout of the Muslim Brotherhood: Options for the Future. 2014-2015 - Holistic Education and the Challenges of Interfaith Cooperation. 2016 - Kurdistan: Pivot of West Asia? References 1929 births Living people Converts to Islam American Muslims American Muslim activists Harvard Law School alumni United States National Security Council staffers American political consultants People from Cambridge, Massachusetts Ambassadors of the United States to the United Arab Emirates