Ibrahim Abdurrahman Farajajé


Director of the Starr King Luce Project for Multi-religious Theological Education
Vice President for Academic Affairs
Dean of the Faculty
Professor of Cultural Studies and Islamic Studies

B.A. Vassar
M.Div. St. Vladimir’s Eastern Orthodox Seminary
Dr. Théol. University of Bern, Switzerland

Dr. Farajajé is on leave 2006-2008 from his roles as Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty. During that time he will direct the Starr King Luce Project for Multi-religious Theological Education, working internationally while based in Istanbul. He will teach three online courses during the 2007-2008 academic year, advise M.Div. and Ph.D. students, and contribute to the development of the GTU's Islamic Studies program.

Farajajé studied early Jewish literature at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome. He also researched and taught at the Institut des Sciences Bibliques at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland. He received his doctorate in Theology for groundbreaking work on the spiritual connection between the African Diaspora and Africa. Farajajé has researched Islam with an emphasis on the African American experience and Moroccan Sufism, as well as the Yoruba and Maria Lionza religions in the Caribbean and Latin America.

Before coming to Starr King in 1996, he was a professor of the History of Religions and Sociology of Religion at Howard University’s School of Divinity. Farajajé is the author of "In Search of Zion: The Spiritual Significance of Africa for Three Black Religious Movements" and co-editor of "African Creative Expressions of the Divine."

The recipient of numerous awards and honors, Farajajé has pioneered work that helps faith communities of color shape compassionate responses to the HIV/AIDS pandemic. He is now applying his work in postcolonial/Diaspora studies, cultural studies, critical theory and video technologies to an investigation of 21st century Islam, the development of Islamophobia and questions of identity and diversity in Muslim communities.

Farajajé serves on the GTU Core Doctoral Faculty. He is also a member of the Cultural and Historical Studies of Religions area and the GTU Islamic Studies Task Force.

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