Sherman A. Jackson is Arthur F. Thurnau professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies, visiting professor of law, and 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. Jackson is the author of several books, the most recent being Islam and the Problem of Black Suffering (2009).