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LECTURE SERIES: ISLAM IN AFRICA

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April 22: Jonathan A.C. Brown, Georgetown University: "Slavery and Islam" Join this lecture series for Critical Perspectives on the Development and Dynamics of Islam in Africa

LECTURE SERIES: Islam In Africa

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March 11: Lidwien Kateijns, Wellesley College: "Sufi Vernacular Poetry and Islamic Education in Brava Somalia 1890-i59" Join this lecture series for Critical Perspectives on the Development and Dynamics of Islam in Africa.

LECTURE SERIES: ISLAM IN AFRICA

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April 1: Mauro Nobili, University of Illinois: "Sultan, Caliph and the Renewer of the Faith. Ahmed Lobbo, the Tarikh al-Fattah and the Making of an Islamic State in West Africa" Join this lecture series for Critical Perspectives on the Development and...

LECTURE SERIES: ISLAM IN AFRICA

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March 25: Annette Lienau Damayanti, Harvard Univesity - Lessons in Parity : Translating "Race", Debating "Language" and uncovering Inter-Imperial Connections across Islamic West Africa and a once colonized "Muslim World" Join this lecture series for...

LECTURE SERIES: ISLAM IN AFRICA

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April 8: Oludamini Ogunnaike, University of Virginia: "The Madih Poetry Tradition in West Africa" Join this lecture series for Critical Perspectives on the Development and Dynamics of Islam in Africa.

Islam in Africa Lecture Series: Women Islamic leaders in West Africa

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Joseph Hill, University of Alberta, will present “Women Islamic leaders in West Africa” Islam in Africa has become an important and increasingly vibrant sub-field in Islamic Studies, attracting numerous extremely talented students who are conducting fine...

LECTURE SERIES: ISLAM IN AFRICA

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April 15: Norbet Litoing, Harvard University: "Enshrining the Message: A Comparative Study of the Pilgrimage to Notre Dame de la Délivrande and the Magal" Join this lecture series for Critical Perspectives on the Development and Dynamics of Islam in...

Islam in Africa Lecture Series: Black Muslim in Activism in South Africa

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Rhea Rahman, Brooklyn College, will present “Black Muslim in Activism in South Africa” Islam in Africa has become an important and increasingly vibrant sub-field in Islamic Studies, attracting numerous extremely talented students who are conducting fine...

Islam in Africa Lecture Series: Spiritual Capital: Islamic Education and Social Change in a Zanzibari Madrasa

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Caitlyn Bolton, CUNY, will present “Spiritual Capital: Islamic Education and Social Change in a Zanzibari Madrasa” Islam in Africa has become an important and increasingly vibrant sub-field in Islamic Studies, attracting numerous extremely talented...

Islam in Africa Lecture Series: The Construction of a Doctrine in Kitāb al-Rimāḥ: Gnosis and Revival in 19th Century West Africa

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Farah El-Sharif, Harvard University, will present “The Construction of a Doctrine in Kitāb al-Rimāḥ: Gnosis and Revival in 19th Century West Africa” Islam in Africa has become an important and increasingly vibrant sub-field in Islamic Studies, attracting...

Islam in Africa Lecture Series: Religious Commemoration as Embodied Heritage: The Two Prayers of Amadu Bamba in Saint- Louis, Senegal

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Tidiane Lo, University of Indiana, will present “Religious Commemoration as Embodied Heritage: The Two Prayers of Amadu Bamba in Saint-Louis, Senegal” Islam in Africa has become an important and increasingly vibrant sub-field in Islamic Studies...

‘The Lives and Afterlives of Donor Funds: “Sustainability” as Neoliberal Development or Islamic Interdependence in Zanzibar, Tanzania.

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Join us from the Islam in Africa Initiative Lecture Series! Islam in Africa has become an important and increasingly vibrant sub-field in Islamic Studies, attracting numerous extremely talented students who are conducting fine studies that have great...