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Islam in Africa Lecture Series with Joseph Hill: 'Women Islamic leaders in West Africa'

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All Lectures are held from 11am-12:30pm at Rock 117. Friday, November 22nd, 2019 Tidiane Lo, University of Indiana “Religious Commemoration as Embodied Heritage: The Two Prayers of Amadu Bamba in Saint-Louis, Senegal” Friday, December 6th, 2019 Farah El...

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

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All Lectures are held from 11am-12:30pm at Rock 117. Friday, November 22nd, 2019 Tidiane Lo, University of Indiana “Religious Commemoration as Embodied Heritage: The Two Prayers of Amadu Bamba in Saint-Louis, Senegal” Friday, December 6th, 2019 Farah El...

Faisal Hamid, 'The Political Economy of Islam in Nigeria'

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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...

Islam in Africa Lecture Series with Rhea Rahman: 'Global Muslim Blackness: Grassroots Initiatives for a Humanitarianism Reimagined'

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All Lectures are held from 11am-12:30pm at Rock 117. Friday, November 22nd, 2019 Tidiane Lo, University of Indiana “Religious Commemoration as Embodied Heritage: The Two Prayers of Amadu Bamba in Saint-Louis, Senegal” Friday, December 6th, 2019 Farah El...

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

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All Lectures are held from 11am-12:30pm at Rock 117. Friday, November 22nd, 2019 Tidiane Lo, University of Indiana “Religious Commemoration as Embodied Heritage: The Two Prayers of Amadu Bamba in Saint-Louis, Senegal” Friday, December 6th, 2019 Farah El...

The Harvard Islam in Africa Initiative Fifth Conference: 'The Fayḍa Tijāniyya Sufi Community in the Twenty-First Century: A Major Articulation of Global Islam'

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CONFERENCE WEBSITE Co-sponsored with the Center for African Studies, Department of African & African American Research, Harvard Divinity School, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program, and Weatherhead Center for International Affairs

Islam in Africa Lecture Series with Farah El-Sharif, 'The Construction of a Doctrine in Kitāb al-Rimāḥ: Gnosis and Revival in 19th Century West Africa'

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All Lectures are held from 11am-12:30pm at Rock 117. Friday, November 22nd, 2019 Tidiane Lo, University of Indiana “Religious Commemoration as Embodied Heritage: The Two Prayers of Amadu Bamba in Saint-Louis, Senegal” Friday, December 6th, 2019 Farah El...

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

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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...

Djelimory Diabate, 'From Tradition to Transformation: Al-Ḥājj ʿUmar Tāl and the Evolution of West African Islamic Political Philosophy'

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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...

Rabiat Akande, 'Entangled Domains: Empire, Law, and Religion in Northern Nigeria'

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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...

Francesco Piraino, 'Blackness and Universality: Reshaping Race and Otherness through Art and Sufism'

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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...

Nicholas Judt, 'As the Gentle Rain From Heaven: The Effective Power of Language in the West African Sufi Poem Xarnu Bi'

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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...