Abdulaziz A. Sachedina

Professor of Religious Studies, University of Virgina

"On Faith" panelist Abdulaziz Sachedina is Frances Myers Ball Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Virgina, Charlottesville. The Tanzanian-born Sachedina, who has studied in India, Iraq, Iran, and Canada, earned his doctorate at the University of Toronto. For more than two decades he has focused his writing and research on Islamic law, ethics and theology. His special fields of interest are social and political ethics, including interfaith and intrafaith relations, and Islamic biomedical ethics. Sachedina's publications include numerous articles in academic journals and these books: Islamic Messianism ( 1980), Human Rights and the Conflicts of Culture, (1988), The Just Ruler in Shiite Islam (1988); The Prolegomena to the Qur'an (1998), and The Islamic Roots of Democratic Pluralism (2002). Close.