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2013 H.A.R. Gibb Arabic & Islamic Studies Lecture Series
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Sherman A. Jackson
King Faisal Chair in Islamic Thought and Culture and Professor of Religion and American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California
Sherman A. Jackson holds the King Faisal Chair in Islamic Thought and Culture and is Professor of Religion and Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. His research interests begin in classical Islamic Studies, including law, theology and intellectual history, and extend to placing this legacy in conversation with the realities of modern Islam in the West, most especially Muslim communities in America. This implicates issues of race, immigration, liberalism, democracy, religion in the modern world, pluralism, constitutionalism, Muslim radicalism and related areas of inquiry, again, all in conversation with the classical and post-classical legacies of Islam.
A veteran of the United States Air Force, Professor Jackson received his BA, MA and PhD from the Department of Oriental Studies, Islamic Near East, at The University of Pennsylvania. Previously, Professor Jackson was professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies and professor of African-American Studies at the University of Michigan, and visiting professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School.
Recent publications include: Sufism for Non-Sufis? Ibn ‘Atâ' Allâh al-Sakandarî's Tâj al-‘Arûs, New York, 2012: Oxford University Press; Initiative to Stop the Violence: Sadat's Assassins and the Renunciation of Political Violence, New Haven, CT, 2012: Yale University Press; Islam and the Problem of Black Suffering, New York, 2009: Oxford University Press; Islam and the Blackamerican: Looking Towards the Third Resurrection, New York, 2005: Oxford University Press; On the Boundaries of Theological Tolerance in Islam: Abû Hâmid al-Ghazâlî's Faisal al-Tafriqa, Karachi, 2002: Oxford University Press; and Islamic Law and the State: The Constitutional Jurisprudence of Shihâb al-Dîn al-Qarâfî, (Vol. 1). Leiden, 1996: E.J. Brill.
Professor Jackson was twice named among the 500 Most Influential Muslims in the World in 2012-13 and 2009-10, by the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre in Amman, Jordan, in cooperation with Prince Al-Waleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Georgetown University.
This is the first of two lectures by Professor Jackson in the 2013 H.A.R. Gibb Lectures series. For information on the other lecture, please use the link below:
November 21, 2013 — Islamic Law and Muslim Politics
Contact: Liz Flanagan