Starr King School for the Ministry
Director of the Starr King Luce Project for Multi-religious Theological Education
Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty (on leave from this role 2006-2008)
Professor of Cultural Studies/Islamic Studies
Core Doctoral Faculty Member

At GTU since 1995

Dr. Theol., University of Bern
M.Div., St. Vladimir's Eastern Orthodox Seminary
B.A., Vassar

Phone: 510/868-9221; 510/931-5473
E-mail: bahauDDin.faqir@gmail.com

Current Research and Teaching Interests

• Study of Islam; Shi'a Studies; Alevi Studies; History of Islam in Africa and in the African Diaspora; Hindu-Muslim Relations; Islam and Eastern Orthodoxy; Islam and Judaism; Islam in Bosnia; History of tasawwuf in Turkey
  
• Islamic Cultural Studies and Critical Theory; Postcolonial/ Decolonial/ Transmodern Theory; Popular Culture and Islam
  
• Intersectionality; Islamic Environmental Studies
  
• Global HIV; Bodies, Genders and Space in Islam
• Video technologies
  
• Al-Andalus: Mizrahi and Sephardi Histories; Jewish/Christian/Muslim aesthetics and cultural products
  

Selected Publications

• African Creative Expressions of the Divine, with Kortright Davis, ed. (Howard University School of Divinity, 1991).
• Farajajé-Jones, Elias. In Search of Zion: The Spiritual Significance of Africa in Black Religious Movements. Peter Lang, 1990.
• Ibrahim Abdurrahman Farajajé and David Anthony Dezern, "Oceans of Mercy: African American Sufi Muslims in the San Francisco Bay Area." 2003 documentary.