When:
Wednesday, April 4, 2018
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM CT
Where: 620 Library Place, Program of African Studies Seminar Room, Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Contact:
Rebecca Shereikis
Group: Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa (ISITA)
Category: Academic
Join us for a dialog between Lamin Sanneh (Yale University and Yale Divinity School), author of Beyond Jihad: The Pacifist Tradition in West African Islam (Oxford University Press, 2016); and Alexander Thurston (Georgetown University), author of Boko Haram: The History of an African Jihadist Movement (Princeton University Press, 2017)
Discussant: Sean Hanretta (Northwestern University)
The ISITA Perspectives Symposium Series brings leading scholars of Islam in Africa to Northwestern for discussion of their recent books. Each symosia features two authors and a discussant.