Professor Jackson is a renowned scholar of  Islamic Studies whose work puts the legacy of Islamic thought and culture into conversation with the realities of modern Islam in the West, most especially Muslim communities in America. His recent books include Initiative to Stop the Violence: Sadat's Assassins and the Renunciation of Political Violence (2013, Yale University Press), Sufism for Non-Sufis? Ibn ‘Atâ' Allâh al-Sakandarî's Tâj al-‘Arûs (2012, Oxford University Press), Islam and the Problem of Black Suffering (2009, Oxford University Press), Islam and the Blackamerican: Looking Towards the Third Resurrection (2005, Oxford University Press.), and On the Boundaries of Theological Tolerance in Islam: Abû Hâmid al-Ghazâlî's Faisal al-Tafriqa (2002, Oxford University Press).