Abdulaziz Sachedina is Professor and IIIT Chair in Islamic Studies at George Mason University. Sachedina, who has studied in India, Iraq, Iran, and Canada, obtained his PhD from the University of Toronto. He conducts research in the field of Islamic law, ethics, and theology (Sunni and Shiite). 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. Dr. Sachedina’s publications include Islamic Messianism (State University of New York, 1980); The Just Ruler in Shiite Islam (Oxford, 1988); The Islamic Roots of Democratic Pluralism (Oxford, 2002), Islamic Biomedical Ethics: Theory and Application (Oxford, February, 2009), and Islam and the Challenge of Human Rights (Oxford, September, 2009), in addition to numerous articles in academic journals. He is an American citizen born in Tanzania.
