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Ari Gordon
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Ari Gordon is the director of Muslim-Jewish relations at American Jewish Committee, where he leads the organization’s interreligious engagement with Muslim leadership in the United States and around the world. He is a scholar of Islamic studies and the history of interreligious relations, and for the past 20 years Gordon has also been at the forefront of Jewish bridge-building efforts with other faith groups. His forthcoming book, Sacred Orientation in Late Antiquity and Early Islam (Routledge, 2025), explores the themes of collective identity, sacred geography, and interreligious relations in Islam’s formative period. Gordon holds a bachelor's degree from Yeshiva University, a master's degree from Harvard Divinity School, and a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.