Critical Perspectives on the Development and Dynamics of Islam in Africa

Cheikh Anta Mbacke Babou, University
of Pennsylvania, ‘The Muridiyya on the Move.
Migration and Place Making.’

UPCOMING LECTURES...,

Friday, April 7, 2023
(11:00AM-1:00PM)
Caitlyn Bolton, Boston College, ‘The Lives
and Afterlives of Donor Funds: “Sustainability” as
Neoliberal Development or Islamic Interdependence
in Zanzibar, Tanzania.’

Friday, April 14, 2023
(11:00AM-1:00PM)
Ayodeji Ogunnaike, Bowdoin College
‘Bilad Brazil The Importance of West African
Scholars in Brazilian Islamic Education and Practice in Historic and Contemporary Perspective.’

Friday, April 21, 2023
(11:00AM-1:00PM)
Zekeria Salem, Northwestern University:
‘Global Shinqī Mauritania’s Islamic Knowledge
Tradition and the Making of Transnational Religious Authority (Nineteenth to Twenty-First Century).’