Professor Liyakat Takim teaches in the Department of
Religious Studies at the University of Denver. A native of Zanzibar,
Tanzania, he has authored seventy scholarly works on diverse topics like
Islam in America, the indigenization of the Muslim community in America,
dialogue in post-911 America, war and peace in the Islamic tradition, the
treatment of women in Islamic juridical literature, Islamic law, Islamic
biographical literature, reformation in the Islamic world, jihad in Shi‘i
law, the charisma of the holy man and shrine culture, Islamic mystical
traditions, and various aspects of Shi‘i history and figures. He teaches a
wide range of courses on Islam and offers a course on comparative religions.
Professor Takim’s second book titled Shi'ism in America,
has been submitted to New York Press for publication. It will be published
in summer 2009. His first book, The Heirs
of the Prophet: Charisma and Religious Authority in Shi‘ite Islam was
published by SUNY press in 2006. He is currently working on his third book,
Ijtihad and Reformation in Islam. Professor Takim is also translating volume
four of ‘Allama Tabatabai’s voluminous exegesis of the Qur’an. Professor
Takim has taught at American and Canadian universities and is actively
engaged in dialogue with different faith communities. He has also lectured
at many institutions in different parts of the world.
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