#  Amadu Kunateh, "'Evil Innovation': Sheikh Ibrahim Niasse and the Reception of Islamic Theosophy in Modern Sub-Saharan Africa" 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **March 29, 2024** 

 11:00AM - 11:00AM EDT 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **Rockefeller Hall, 47 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA**  



 

 



 

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 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**



 

 



 

 

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