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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 authored more than 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 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 is also translating volume four of ‘Allama Tabatabai’s
voluminous exegesis of the Qur’an. 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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