Djelimory Diabate, 'From Tradition to Transformation: Al-Ḥājj ʿUmar Tāl and the Evolution of West African Islamic Political Philosophy'
Date and Time
Location
ISLAM IN AFRICA INITIATIVE LECTURE SERIES
Spring 2024
Critical Perspectives on the Development and Dynamics of Islam in Africa
FRIDAYS, 11:00AM-1:00 PM
Rockefeller Hall 117
LUNCH WILL BE PROVIDED
March 1: Rabiat Akande, Assistant Professor, The University of Toronto, Entangled Domains: Empire, Law, and Religion in Northern Nigeria
March 8: Nicholas Judt, Ph.D Candidate in Religion, Harvard University, As the Gentle Rain From Heaven: The Effective Power of Language in the West African Sufi Poem Xarnu Bi
March 22: Faisal Hamid, Ph.D Candidate in Religion, Oxford University, The Political Economy of Islam in Nigeria
March 29: Amadu Kunateh, Candidate in Religion, Harvard University, "Evil Innovation": Sheikh Ibrahim Niasse and the Reception of Islamic Theosophy in Modern Sub-Saharan Africa
April 5: Djelimory Diabate, Ph.D candidate in Religion, Harvard University, From Tradition to Transformation: Al-Ḥājj ʿUmar Tāl and the Evolution of West African Islamic Political Philosophy
April 12: Francesco Piraino, Research Associate at the Center for the Study of World Religions - Harvard Divinity School Director of the Centre for Comparative Studies of Civilizations and Spiritualities at the Cini Foundation in Venice, Blackness and Universality: Reshaping Race and Otherness through Art and Sufism
Co-sponsored with the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program, the Department of African & African American Studies, and the Harvard Divinity School