History, Movement, and the Spread of Islamic Scholarship

Harvard Divinity School

Zachary Wright, Associate Professor of History, Northwestern University Qatar Visionary Knowledge: Encounters with the Prophet in Islamic Africa, 18th Century to the Present Khaled Esseissah, Ph.D. student, History Department, Indiana University-Bloomington The Ulama of Bilad Shinqiti (Mauritania) and their Roles in Disseminating Islamic Learning Outside Africa Ahmed Chanfi, Senior Lecturer, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany Northeastern African `ulama' and Salafism in Mecca and Medina: The Case of the Ethiopian Born Shaykh Muhammad ʿAli Amin al-Jami and the al-Jamiyya Movement in Saudi Arabia Dahlia Gubara, Assistant Professor, American University of Beirut Black Magic, White Magic, and the Man from Katsina Panel chair: Oludamini Ogunnaike, College of William and Mary Texts, Knowledge, and Practice: The Meaning of Scholarship in Muslim Africa website: http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/islamafrica Learn more about Harvard Divinity School and its mission to illuminate, engage, and serve at http://hds.harvard.edu/.