Zekeria Salem, Northwestern University: ‘Global Shinqī Mauritania’s Islamic Knowledge Tradition and the Making of Transnational Religious Authority (Nineteenth to Twenty-First Century).’
Islam in Africa Initiative: Ayodeji Ogunnaike, Swartz Hall, Garvin Room, Harvard University, April 14, 2023 @ 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Ayodeji Ogunnaike, Bowdoin College ‘Bilad Brazil The Importance of West African Scholars in Brazilian Islamic Education and Practice in Historic and Contemporary Perspective.’
Islam in Africa Initiative: Caitlyn Bolton, Swartz Hall, Garvin Room, Harvard University, April 7, 2023 @ 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Caitlyn Bolton, Boston College, ‘The Lives and Afterlives of Donor Funds: “Sustainability” as Neoliberal Development or Islamic Interdependence in Zanzibar, Tanzania.’
Islam in Africa Initiative: Cheikh Anta Mbacke Babou, Swartz Hall, Garvin Room, Harvard University, March 31, 2023 @ 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Cheikh Anta Mbacke Babou, University of Pennsylvania, ‘The Muridiyya on the Move. Migration and Place Making.’
Islam in Africa Initiative: Abdulatif Finch, Swartz Hall, Garvin Room, Harvard University, March 24, 2023 @ 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Abdulatif Finch, Harvard University, ‘Flooding Over and Beyond: Normative Sufism and the Supra-Onto-Epistemic Paradigm Shift of Sheikh Ibrahim Niasse’s Cataclysm (Fayda)’.
Islam in Africa Initiative: Steve Howard, Swartz Hall, Garvin Room, Harvard University, March 10, 2023 @ 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Steve Howard, Ohio State University: ‘Sudan's Republican Brotherhood: On the Path of the Prophet in Troubled Times.'
Islam in Africa Initiative: Umar Tahir, Swartz Hall, Garvin Room, Harvard University, March 3, 2023 @ 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Umar Tahir, Columbia Unversity, ‘Rediscovering 18th Century Knowledge Tradition: al-Kashnāwī’s (d.1742) Intellectual Networks in Bilād al-Sudān and Hijāz’.