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Professor
Liyakat Takim teaches in the
Department of Religious
Studies at the University of Denver. A native of Zanzibar,
Tanzania, he has authored over sixty 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 book titled,
The Heirs of the Prophet: Charisma
and Religious Authority in Shi‘ite Islam was recently published by SUNY press. He is currently working on his
second book, The Shi‘i Experience in America. He is also translating
volume four of ‘Allama Tabataba'i'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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