The New Gama'ah Islamiyah: Prospects and Implications for US-Muslim World Relations
Monday, February 4, 2008
Berkley Center Conference Room
A lecture with Sherman Jackson, University of Michigan.
Sherman A. Jackson is a professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies, a visiting professor of law, and a professor of Afro-American Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor . He has served as Executive Director for the Center of Arabic Study Abroad (CASA) in Cairo, Egypt, is a member of the U.S.-Muslim World Advisory Committee of the U.S. Institute of Peace, and a co-founder of the American Learning Institute for Muslims. He is also a former member of the Fiqh Council of North America, past president of the Sharî‘ah Scholars' Association of North America and a past trustee of the North American Islamic Trust. In addition to numerous articles on Islamic law, theology and history, Jackson is the author of Islamic Law and the State: The Constitutional Jurisprudence of Shihâb al-Dîn al-Qarâfî, On the Boundaries of Theological Tolerance in Islam: Abû Hâmid al-Ghazâlî's Faysal al-Tafriqa and, most recently, the controversial Islam and Blackamerican: Looking Towards the Third Resurrection.