DR. ABDULKADIR HASHIM

Dr. Abdulkadir Hashim is a Senior lecturer in Sharia & Islamic studies in the Department of Philosophy & Religious studies at the University of Nairobi and an Advocate of the High of Kenya.  He is a former Lecturer and Head of Department of Sharia, Faculty of Law, Zanzibar University.  He has obtained his LL.B in Sharia & law in 1993 from Omdurman Islamic University, Sudan, and LL.M in 1996 from the London School of Economics, University of London, and LL.D in 2010 from the University of Western Cape in South Africa.  His LL.D research highlighted the patterns of British colonial dynamics on the administration of Islamic law in the Zanzibar Sultanate.  He has published several articles in referred journals and   contributed in book chapters on Muslim personal law and Muslim intellectual contributions along the East African coast.  He has participated in various fora on Muslim co-existence in a pluralist society.  His research interests include Muslim personal law, Muslim intellectual history and Muslim-State-Christian relations in Kenya.