Pearl Robinson, Associate Professor of Political Science, Tufts University will present and comment on her film Mama Kiota of Niger: "Leadership is Female, is African, is Muslim Woman"

Free and open to the public | Lunch is provided

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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 impact in all fields in the humanities and social sciences. Dozens of books are published yearly...

Michael Gomez, Silver Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, New York University will present his book African Dominion: A New History of Empire in Early and Medieval West Africa (Princeton University Press, early 2018)

Free and open to the public | Lunch is provided

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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 impact in all fields in the humanities and...

Jeremy Dell, Postdoctoral Fellow, Dartmouth College will deliver a lecture titled: “Unbraiding the Qu'ran: Wolofal and the Tafsīr Tradition of Senegambia"

Free and open to the public | Lunch is provided

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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 impact in all fields in the humanities and social sciences. Dozens of books are published yearly including through major...

Hannah Hoechner, Lecturer University of East Anglia will present her book: Quranic Schools in Northern Nigeria Everyday Experiences of Youth, Faith, and Poverty. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. (not confirmed yet)

Free and open to the public | Lunch is provided

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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 impact in all fields in the humanities and social sciences. Dozens of...

Ousmane Kane, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor of Contemporary Islamic Religion and Society, Harvard Divinity School and Professor Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations will deliver a lecture titled: “Transformation of the Pilgrimage Tradition in West Africa”

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Brandon Kendhammer, Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of International Development Studies at Ohio University, in Athens, OH will present his book Muslims Talking Politics: Framing Islam, Democracy, and Law in Northern Nigeria, Chicago, University Of Chicago Press, 2016.

Free and open to the public | Lunch is provided

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Islam in Africa has become an important and increasingly vibrant sub-field in Islamic Studies, attracting numerous extremely talented students who are conducting fine...

Oludamini Ogunnaike, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the College of William and Mary will present his forthcoming book Sufism and Ifa: Ways of Knowing in Two West African Intellectual Traditions.

Free and open to the public | Lunch is provided

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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 impact in all fields in the humanities and social sciences. Dozens of...

Harvard's Islamic Africa Seminar (IAS) is excited to host Jeremy Dell of the University of Pennsylvania. Dell will discuss his ongoing research on Islamic manuscript cultures in West Africa.  His talk will explore the complicated relationship between colonial and post-independence efforts to preserve the Western Sahel's written heritage and constructions of the region's Islamic history.

All disciplines, backgrounds, and engagements with the field are warmly welcomed. Dinner will be served.

please RSVP to Matthew Steele (msteele@fas.harvard.edu). 

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The Islam in Africa Speaker Series welcomes Dr. Zekeria Ould Ahmed Salem, Professor of Political Science at the School of Law and Political Science of the Université de Nouakchott Mauritania. Salem will deliver a lecture entitled, "Desert, Islam, Slavery and Social Change in Mauritania."

Professor Lidwien Kapteijns (Wellesley College) will lead a discussion about methodology and primary sources for students of Islamic Africa.  Participants are invited to read and comment on Kapteijns and Vianello’s ongoing research about a particular genre of Islamic Sufi sources from 19th- and 20th-century Brava (on Somalia’s Benadir coast).  Through her paper, Professor Kapteijns will explore the challenges of using primary sources in local languages (including Arabic) to address broader themes in the study of Islamic Africa.

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