About Professor Liyakat Takim
Professor
Liyakat Takim
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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 more than ninety 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. He has
also lectured at many institutions in different parts of the world.
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