Abdulaziz Sachedina

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Distinguished Visiting Professor of Islamic Studies

B.A., Aligarh Muslim University
B.A., Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran
M.A. and Ph.D., University of Toronto

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Office: Room 215
Tel.: (416) 813-4056
Fax: (416) 585-4516
Email: aziz.sachedina@utoronto.ca


Dr. Sachedina is the Distinguished Visiting Professor of Islamic Studies at Emmanuel College. As a bioethicist, Dr. Sachedina has conducted research and writing in the field of Islamic Law, Ethics, and Theology (Sunni and Shiite) for more than two decades. In the last ten years he has concentrated on social and political ethics, including Interfaith and Intrafaith Relations, Islamic Biomedical Ethics, and Islam and Human Rights. Professor Sachedina’s publications include: Islamic Messianism (SUNY Press, 1981); Human Rights and the Conflicts of Culture (University of South Carolina, 1988); and from Oxford University Press, The Prolegomena to the Qur’an (1998); The Islamic Roots of Democratic Pluralism (2001); Islamic Biomedical Ethic: Theory and Application (2009); and Islam and the Challenge of Human Rights (2009). His current research examines ethical presuppositions of Islamic religious law and traces the development of legal and moral authority in Islamic society through the study of works in Islamic jurisprudence.

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