Sherman Jackson is a professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at the University of Michigan. He is the author of several books including Islam and the Blackamerican, The Boundaries of Theological Tolerance in Islam and Islamic Law and the State: The Constitutional Jurisprudence of Shihâb al-Dîn al-Qarâfî as well as numerous essays. You can find out more about Dr. Jackson, his writings and his appearances here.
This site is in no way an official site of Dr. Jackson’s. Rather, it is simply to give recognition to his works and efforts inside the American Muslim and academic fields.
‘Who are the Muslims in America?’ - ‘They are an amalgamation of races, ethnicities, classes and perhaps most importantly, histories, bound together by a common commitment to a set of basic religious/theological postulates and an ongoing exchange, in word and in deed, about what those religious and theological postulates mean, in the context for their desire for a dignified and self-respecting existence as Muslims in America.’
Sherman ‘Abd al-Hakim’ Jackson