Mohannad and Rana Malas Lecture in Islamic Legal Studies
Law and Politics: Between Sharī‘ah and the Islamic Secular
Presented by Sherman Jackson
Distinguished Professor, King Faisal Chair in Islamic Thought and Culture and Professor of Religion and American Studies and Ethnicity
Dr. Sherman Jackson is the King Faisal Chair of Islamic Thought and Culture, and Professor of Religion and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California (USC). Prior to joining USC, he was the Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Near Eastern Studies and Visiting Professor of Law and Professor of Afro-American Studies at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor). Dr. Jackson’s research interests begin in classical Islamic Studies, including law, theology and intellectual history, and extend to placing this legacy in conversation with the realities of modern Islam in the West, most especially Muslim communities in America. This implicates issues of race, immigration, liberalism, democracy, religion in the modern world, pluralism, constitutionalism, Muslim radicalism and related areas of inquiry, again, all in conversation with the classical and post-classical legacies of Islam. He is the author of numerous articles and books, including: Islamic Law and the State: The Constitutional Jurisprudence of Shihāb al-Dīn al-Qarāfī (E.J. Brill, 1996); Islam and the Blackamerican: Looking Towards the Third Resurrection (Oxford University Press, 2005); Islam and the Problem of Black Suffering (Oxford University Press, 2009); Sufism for Non-Sufis?: Ibn ʿAṭāʾ Allāh al-Sakandarī’s Tāj al-ʿArūs (Oxford University Press, 2012); and Sadat's Assassins and the Renunciation of Political Violence (Yale University Press, 2015). His latest book, The Islamic Secular, will be published by Oxford University Press in November 2023.
Monday, November 6, 2023
5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
Education Building, Room 1111
Reception immediately following
Advanced registration is required to attend this event.