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Islam in Africa Brown Bag Series: Leadership is Female, is African, is Muslim Woman

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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 ABOUT Islam in Africa...

Islam in Africa Brown Bag Series: African Dominion: A New History of Empire in Early and Medieval West Africa

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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...

Islam in Africa Brown Bag Series: Unbraiding the Qu'ran: Wolofal and the Tafsīr Tradition of Senegambia

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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 ABOUT Islam in Africa has become an important and...

Islam in Africa Brown Bag Series: Quranic Schools in Northern Nigeria Everyday Experiences of Youth, Faith, and Poverty

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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...

Islam in Africa Brown Bag Series: Transformation of the Pilgrimage Tradition in West Africa

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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...

Islam in Africa Brown Bag Series: Muslims Talking Politics: Framing Islam, Democracy, and Law in Northern Nigeria

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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...

Islam in Africa Brown Bag Series: Ways of Knowing in Two West African Intellectual Traditions

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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...

The Materiality of Tradition: Pursuing and Preserving Texts in the Western Sahel

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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...

Teaching in the Desert: Islam, Slavery, and Social Change in Mauritania

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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...

ʻIlm and the Common People: Sufi Vernacular Poetry and Islamic Education in Brava, c.1890-1922 (Professor Lidwien Kapteijns, Wellesley College)

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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...