ISITA Perspectives Symposium Series. Jihad and Its Enemies: New Perspectives from West Africa - Lamin Sanneh and Alexander Thurston

Name: ISITA Perspectives Symposium Series. Jihad and Its Enemies: New Perspectives from West Africa - Lamin Sanneh and Alexander Thurston
Start: 2018-04-04T16:00:00-05:00
End: 2018-04-04T18:00:00-05:00
Location: 620 Library Place, Program of African Studies Seminar Room

Wednesday, April 4, 2018 | 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM CT

620 Library Place, Program of African Studies Seminar Room, Evanston, IL 60208 map it

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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.

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