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Professor
Liyakat Takim
McMaster
University
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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