Critical Perspectives on the Development and Dynamics of Islam in Africa

Umar Tahir, Columbia Unversity,
‘Rediscovering 18th Century Knowledge Tradition:
al-Kashnāwī’s (d.1742) Intellectual Networks in Bilād al-Sudān and Hijāz’.

UPCOMING LECTURES...

Friday, March 10, 2023
(11:00AM-1:00PM)
Steve Howard, Ohio State University:
‘Sudan's Republican Brotherhood: On the Path of
the Prophet in Troubled Times’.

Friday, March 24, 2023
(11:00AM-1:00PM)
Abdulatif Finch, Harvard University,
‘Flooding Over and Beyond: Normative Sufism and
the Supra-Onto-Epistemic Paradigm Shift of Sheikh
Ibrahim Niasse’s Cataclysm (Fayda)’.

Friday, March 31, 2023
(11:00AM-1:00PM)
Cheikh Anta Mbacke Babou, University
of Pennsylvania, ‘The Muridiyya on the Move.
Migration and Place Making.’

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).’