Meet the 2011 Council
Annual Community Dinner Keynote Speaker:

Dr. Sherman Jackson

Dr. Jackson is the newly appointed King Faisal Chair in Islamic Thought and Culture and Professor of Religion and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. Sherman A. Jackson was the Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Near Eastern Studies, visiting Professor of Law and Professor of Afro American Studies at University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He received his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 1991. He has taught at the University of Texas at Austin, Indiana University and Wayne State University. From 1987-1989 he served as the Executive Director of The Center of Arab Study in Cairo, Egypt. He is co-founder of the American Learning Institute for Muslims (ALIM), a former member of  The Fiqh Council of North America, past president of the Shar'iah Scholars Association of North America and a past trustee of the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT). He is featured on the Washington Post Newsweek blog, "On Faith", and is listed by Religion News writers' Association's Religion Link as among the top 10 experts on Al Islam in America.

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