Tikkun and Imam Zaid Shakir
June 22nd, 2009 by Luke
Imam Zaid Shakir is amongst the most respected and influential Islamic scholars in the West. As an American Muslim who came of age during the civil rights struggles, he has brought both sensitivity about race and poverty issues and scholarly discipline to his faith-based work. His article in the current Tikkun, “Obsessed with Defamation and Slander,” rebuts the charges of “Islamofascism” made by the widely disseminated “Obsession” DVD and in much commentary about Islam as a whole.Imam Shakir is scholar-in-residence and lecturer at Zaytuna Institute, where he teaches courses on Arabic, Islamic law, history, and Islamic spirituality. His essays have been collected in Scattered Pictures (Zaytuna Institute 2005). For more information see his own website. More »
