PAS L+L: Wendell Hassan Marsh - Shaykh Musa Kamara and the Genealogy of an African Islamic Modernity
When:
Wednesday, February 13, 2019
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CT
Where: 620 Library Place, room 106, 620 Library Place , Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Contact:
Program of African Studies
(847) 491-7323
Group: Program of African Studies
Co-Sponsor:
Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa (ISITA)
Category: Lectures & Meetings
Description:
Join the Program of African Studies as we provide lunch and a lecture.
Wendell Hassan Marsh, Buffett Postdoctoral Fellow, Northwestern University
Title: Shaykh Musa Kamara and the Genealogy of an African Islamic Modernity
Bio:
Wendell Hassan Marsh conducts research and teaches on the encounter of Islam and the African world as mediated in Arabic and vernacular texts. Overall, his work seeks to decentralize the study of Islam from the classical Arab heartlands by locating debates over religious authority in French West Africa within an equivocal tradition of argument and dissent specific to the region. He has been awarded Fulbright, Ford, and Foreign Language and Area Studies fellowships for his work. Marsh is an assistant professor of African American and African Studies at Rutgers University-Newark.