When:
Wednesday, October 31, 2018
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
Where: 620 Library Place, Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Contact:
Rebecca Shereikis
847.491.4578
Group: Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa (ISITA)
Co-Sponsor(s):
Program of African Studies
Category: Lectures & Meetings
Join us for an ISITA talk as part of the Program of African Studies weekly lunch lecture series.
Kimberly Wortmann: Endowments, Wills, and Charitable Societies: Old and New Expressions of Ibadhi Mosque Patronage in Zanzibar
Bio: Kimberly Wortmann is Assistant Professor in the Department for the Study of Religions, Wake Forest University. She received her PhD from the Committee on the Study of Religion, Harvard University. Her work focuses primarily on social and intellectual history in eastern Africa and southern Arabia. Her dissertation traces the development of trans-national Ibadi Muslim institutions and activism since the 1964 revolution in Zanzibar, and her research for this project has taken her to Tanzania, Kenya, Oman, and Yemen, among other places.