Sherman Jackson

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A native of Philadelphia, he received his Ph. D from the University of Pennsylvania in Oriental Studies –Islamic Near East in 1991. Presently, he is Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Visiting Professor of Law, and Professor of Afro-American Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. From 1987-89, he served as Executive Director for the Center of Arabic Study Abroad (CASA) in Cairo, Egypt. He has taught at the University of Texas at Austin, Indiana University, Wayne State University and was recently offered a full-professorship at Stanford University. In addition to numerous articles on Islamic law, theology and history, and Islam in America, he is author of Islamic Law and the State: The Constitutional Jurisprudence of Shihâb al-Dîn al-Qarâfî(E.J. Brill, 1996), On the Boundaries of Theological Tolerance in Islam: Abû Hâmid al-Ghazâlî’s Faysal al-Tafriqa: ISBN 0-19-579791-4(Oxford, 2002) and, most recently, Islam and Blackamerican: Looking Towards the Third Resurrection: ISBN 0-19-518081-X(Oxford, 2005). He is co-founder of the American Learning Institute for Muslims (ALIM), a former member of the Fiqh Council of North America, past president of the Sharî‘ah Scholars’ Association of North America (SSANA) and a past trustee of the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT). He is a sought-after speaker and has lectured throughout the US and in numerous countries abroad.