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Professor
Liyakat Takim is the Sharjah Chair in Global Islam at McMaster
University in Hamilton, Canada. A native of Zanzibar, Tanzania,
he has spoken at more than eighty academic conferences and
authored
one hundred
scholarly works on diverse topics like reformation in the
Islamic world, the treatment of women in Islamic law, Islam in
America, the indigenization of the Muslim community in America,
dialogue in post-911 America, war and peace in the Islamic
tradition, Islamic law, Islamic biographical literature, the
charisma of the holy man and shrine culture, and Islamic
mystical traditions. 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
was published by
New York University Press 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 has taught at several American and Canadian universities
and is actively engaged in dialogue with different faith
communities.
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