Autor/-in: Jackson Sherman A.

Sherman A. Jackson. is King Faisal Chair of Islamic Thought and Culture and Professor of Religion and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. Prior to that, he spent many years at the University of Michigan's Department of Middle East Studies. He is the author of numerous books, including Islamic Law and the State: The Constitutional Jurisprudence of Shihab al-Din al-Qarafi. (E. J. Brill, 1996), Islam and the Blackamerican: Looking Toward the Third Resurrection. (OUP 2005), Islam and the Problem of Black Suffering. (OUP 2009), and Sufism for Non-Sufis: Ibn 'Ata' Allah al-Sakandari's Taj al-'Arus. (OUP 2012).