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Symposium on Muslim African Intellectual History

KEYNOTE:

"Beyond Timbuktu: an intellectual history of Muslim West Africa"

Ousmane Kane, Harvard University

FOLLOWED BY A PANEL AND DISCUSSION:

"Fulbe literature in Arabic in 19th-century West Africa,"

Mohamed Diagayété, Associate Director, Institut des Hautes Études et de Recherche Islamique - Ahmad Baba, Timbuktu, Mali

"L'esclavage à travers les fatawa ouest-africaines," (with translation)

Mahamane Mahamoudou, Independent scholar, Timbutku, Mali

"Reading the life and politics of a 20th-century Timbuktu religious scholar through his historiography,"

Mohamed Shaid Mathee, University of Johannesburg, South Africa

"The correspondence of Ahmad al-Bakkay al-Kunti (d.1865)"

Ali Diakité, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Contact: Bruce Hall