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Dr. Shafiq Earns Lifetime Achievement Award as a Rochester Faith Leader

Published June 15, 2016

Nazareth College congratulates Muhammad Shafiq, executive director of the Hickey Center for Interfaith Studies and Dialogue and professor of Islamic and Religious Studies, on his Lifetime Achievement Award from the Faith in Action Network: The Greater Rochester Community of Churches.  Shafiq was honored at the 25th Annual Faith in Action Celebration Dinner in June for his work as a top faith leader in the Rochester area.

Until 2007, Shafiq was Imam of the Islamic Center of Rochester, Inc. He holds a Ph.D. from Temple University, and both master’s and bachelor’s degrees from the University of Peshawar.

Shafiq has written more than 40 articles and several books, including Interfaith Dialogue: A Guide for Muslims (International Institute of Islamic Thought: second edition, 2012). His article addressing the level of dialogue between different interfaith groups in the Rochester area, Abrahamic Faiths: Models of Interfaith Dialogue in the United States (A Case Study of Rochester, New York) was published in Peace-Building By, Between, and Beyond Muslims and Evangelical Christians, edited by Mohammed Abu-Nimer and David Augsburger, Lexington Books, 2009.

His work promoting interfaith dialogue was recognized at the Doha International Interfaith Conference in April 2013. He has led intra-faith and interfaith leadership training workshops in Chad, Niger, Indonesia, Belgium, and other parts of the world. He organized an international symposium, Sacred Texts and Human Contexts beginning in 2013. This symposium brings together scholars from around the world to enhance the work of interfaith, justice and peace, and document areas of common interest between the three communities. The latest symposium occurred in May 2016 at Nazareth College on the topic of: Nature and Environment in World Religions.

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