Abdulaziz Sachedina

Born in Tanzania, Abdulaziz Sachedina is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia. His MA/PhD is from the University of Toronto, and has BA degrees from Aligarh Muslim University in India and Ferdowsi University in Iran. He has been visiting professor at Wilfrid Laurier, Waterloo and McGill Universities in Canada, Haverford College and the University of Jordan, Amman. He has lectured widely in East Africa, India, Pakistan, Europe, and the Middle East. Professor Sachedina is a core member of the "Islamic Roots of Democratic Pluralism," Project in the CSIS Preventive Diplomacy program and a key contributor to the program's efforts to link religion to universal human needs and values in the service of peace-building. He contributed to Human Rights and the Conflict of Cultures: Western and Islamic Perspectives on Religious Liberty (University of South Carolina Press, 1988) and has authored Islamic Roots of Democratic Pluralism (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001). He is presently working on a major study on: Islamic Law for Muslim Physicians: The Spiritual Foundations of Biomedical Ethics in Islam (forthcoming 2002).