simon ross valentine

Hi there, and welcome to my website which focuses on religion, philosophy, and current affairs. Having spent considerable time in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Iraq, having a PhD in modern history; extensive experience teaching at secondary; tertiary and HE levels of education and having published four books on Islam and church history, I would be interested in sharing ideas with others who have the same interests. My current research interests are political Islam, and minority groups within Islam particularly Wahhabism and the Ahmadiyya Jamaat. I also have a great interest in Kurdistan Peshmerga, the kurdish army) and Nonconformist Church history. So please, read and enjoy my blog entries and publications.