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 ĘżAli 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
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