Professor Farid Esack is a traditionally trained scholar and an accomplished academic who has taught in several international universities, including Harvard, and Columbia, Hamburg and Gadja Mada. Esack is arguably the world’s leading Islamic Liberation theologian and has had several of his many works on Islam translated into twenty languages. He was appointed as gender-equality commissioner by Nelson Mandela. Through the organisation, The Call of Islam, Esack played a leading role in the struggle against apartheid. He is an advocate of interreligious solidarity against all forms of injustice and has worked extensively to support Muslims infected with HIV. In 2018 he was awarded the Order of Luthuli, South Africa’s highest civilian order for his contribution to scholarship and work for justice. He is currently based in the Department of Religion Studies at the University of Johannesburg.