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Islamic Scholarship in Africa. New Directions and Global Contexts

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Harvard's Islam in Africa Lecture Series: Critical Perspectives on the Development and Dynamics of Islam in Africa 2021- 2022, continues on Friday, March 4, 2022, 11:00 AM-1:00PM(Eastern) with a lecture by AAAS Professor Ousmane Kane entitled “Islamic...

AAAS Professor Ousmane Kane Gives Islam in Africa Lecture

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Harvard's Islam in Africa Lecture Series: Critical Perspectives on the Development and Dynamics of Islam in Africa 2021- 2022, continues on Friday, March 4, 2022, 11:00 AM-1:00PM(Eastern) with a lecture by AAAS Professor Ousmane Kane entitled “Islamic...

AAAS Professor Ali Asani Reflects on Islamic Studies

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On Thursday, March 18, 2021, the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program uploaded a recorded podcast discussion with its former program directors entitled "Looking Back on Islamic Studies at Harvard | Roy Mottahedeh, William Graham, and Ali...

Zachary Valentine Wright “Realizing Islam. The Tijaniyya and the tariqa muhammadiyya"

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2021-2022 Islam in Africa Lecture Series Zachary Valentine Wright “Realizing Islam. The Tijaniyya and the tariqa muhammadiyya" Date: Tuesday, October 12, 2021, 3:00pm to 5:00pm Location: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/92595874073 For more information Professor...

AAAS Professor Ousmane Kane Edits "Islamic Scholarship in Africa"

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Friday, May 21, 2021, is the release date from publisher Boydell & Brewer for AAAS Professor Ousmane Kane's new book "Islamic Scholarship in Africa - New Directions and Global Contexts." The book, edited by Professor Kane, explores research in the study...

Spring 2023 Lecture Series - Islam in Africa Initiative - Caitlyn Bolton

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Critical Perspectives on the Development and Dynamics of Islam in Africa Caitlyn Bolton, Boston College, ‘The Lives and Afterlives of Donor Funds: “Sustainability” as Neoliberal Development or Islamic Interdependence in Zanzibar, Tanzania.’ UPCOMING...

Spring 2023 Lecture Series - Islam in Africa Initiative - Ayodeji Ogunnaike

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Critical Perspectives on the Development and Dynamics of Islam in Africa Ayodeji Ogunnaike, Bowdoin College ‘Bilad Brazil The Importance of West African Scholars in Brazilian Islamic Education and Practice in Historic and Contemporary Perspective.’...

Spring 2023 Lecture Series - Islam in Africa Initiative - Zekeria Salem

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Critical Perspectives on the Development and Dynamics of Islam in Africa Zekeria Salem, Northwestern University: ‘Global Shinqī Mauritania’s Islamic Knowledge Tradition and the Making of Transnational Religious Authority (Nineteenth to Twenty-First...

Spring 2023 Lecture Series - Islam in Africa Initiative - Cheikh Anta Mbacke Babou

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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...

Spring 2023 Lecture Series - Islam in Africa Initiative - Abdulatif Finch

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Critical Perspectives on the Development and Dynamics of Islam in Africa Abdulatif Finch, Harvard University, ‘Flooding Over and Beyond: Normative Sufism and the Supra-Onto-Epistemic Paradigm Shift of Sheikh Ibrahim Niasse’s Cataclysm (Fayda)’. UPCOMING...

AAAS Professor Ousmane Kane Convenes Fifth Islam in Africa Conference

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AAAS Professor Ousmane Kane convenes the Harvard Islam in Africa Initiative's Fifth Conference, “The Fayd ̣a Tijāniyya in the Twenty-First Century: A Major Articulation of Global Islam” on Thursday, April 22, 2021 through Saturday, April 24, 2021. The...

Spring 2023 Lecture Series - Islam in Africa Initiative - Steve Howard

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Critical Perspectives on the Development and Dynamics of Islam in Africa 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’. UPCOMING LECTURES...