Timothy R Furnish

TIMOTHY R. FURNISH teaches world history at Georgia Perimeter College. He learned Arabic while serving in U.S. Army Intelligence and received his doctorate in Islamic History from Ohio State University. His specialty is Islamic eschatology, particularly modern Mahdism--Islamic "messianism"--and how such beliefs have influenced revolutionary political thought in the Muslim world.

TIMOTHY R. FURNISH teaches world history at Georgia Perimeter College. He learned Arabic while serving in U.S. Army Intelligence and received his doctorate in Islamic History from Ohio State University. His specialty is Islamic eschatology, particularly modern Mahdism--Islamic "messianism"--and how such beliefs have influenced revolutionary political thought in the Muslim world. See less