RACISM IS A FORM OF SATANIC RELIGION

Interview with Dr. Sherman Jackson By Hikmet Karčić

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Dr. Sherman Jackson the head of the Department for Islamic Thought and Culture as well as professor of American Studies at the University of Southern California – USC. Dr. Jackson earned his PhD at the Pennsylvania University and he taught at universities of Texas, Indiana, Wayne and Michigan. He is the author of a number of books like: Islamic Law and State: Constitutional Jurisprudence of Shihâb al-Dîn al-Qarâfî (E.J. Brill, 1996), On the Boundaries of Theological Tolerance in Islam: Abû Hâmid al-Ghazâlî’s Faysal al-Tafriqa (Oxford, 2002) and Islam and the Problem of Black Suffering, (Oxford, 2009). He used to be very active in various American Muslim societies. He visited Sarajevo in June 2018, when he took part in seminar Building Bridges with the lecture titled Inequality in the World: The Christian and the Muslim perspective. The organiser of the seminar was Georgetown University from Washington DC. Co-organisers of this event were Faculty of Islamic Studies and the Catholic Faculty of Theology of Sarajevo University. We used the opportunity of his stay here in Sarajevo to hear some of his thought on islamophobia, Islamic education in USA and about the Sharia in the West.