What key details about abdulaziz sachedina can be extracted from the following bio? Bio: abdulaziz sachedina is professor and iiit chair in islamic studies at george mason university in fairfax , virginia . he has been a professor for 33 years , beginning in 1975 . he annually teaches courses on classical islam , islam in the modern age , islam , democracy and human rights , islamic bioethics and muslim theology . he was born in tanzania , his heritage originally is from india . he has an ma/phd from the university of toronto and has ba degrees from aligarh muslim university in india and ferdowsi university of mashad in iran . he was one of the students of dr. ali shariati in iran . in 1998 , grand ayatollah sistani issued a statement against sachedina that advised muslims not to listen to his talks or to ask him questions about religious matters . -lrb- see original text in persian -rrb- . in 1997 , grand ayatollah lotfollah safi golpaygani thanked him for his translation of a book on imam mahdi into english , originally written by ayatollah ebrahim amini . the acknowledgement letter was published by the iranian hawza magazine . in addition to his work at the university , professor sachedina has been a consultant to the department of defense regarding middle eastern affairs and was an adviser to those drafting the constitution of iraq that was put into effect in 2005 . he speaks hindi , urdu , french , persian , arabic , gujarati , swahili , english , turkish and german . he has also taught at the university of virginia .
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- citizenship is american- birth date is 1942- name is abdulaziz sachedina- ethnicity is indian- birth place is tanzania- alma mater is aligarh ba -lrb- hons -rrb- -rrb- university of toronto -lrb- ma muslim -rrb- , -lrb- phd -rrb- university -lrb- ba -rrb- ferdowsi university -lrb-