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The African Studies Initiative (ASI) presents: Islam in the African Renaissance: The Secular-Religious Afterlife of Shaykh Musa Kamara
Wendell Marsh, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at Rutgers University-Newark presents Islam in the African Renaissance. "The broader project narrates the efforts of Senegalese Muslim scholar Shaykh Musa Kamara (1864-1945) to publish a monumental history of Muslim West Africa in a bilingual Arabic-French edition. In so doing, I describe the evolving relationship between forms of knowledge and forms of power before, during, and after the colonial episode, in which Arabic was paradoxically embraced as a language of native literature by state and society alike. Using Kamara’s body of work, colonial archival documents, and postcolonial knowledge production within Senegal, I make a case for a literary and intellectual-historical approach to the field of Islam in Africa. More importantly, I present Kamara’s story as a parable about the fate of the humanities after colonialism."
This seminar is based on a pre-circulated paper to be read in advance. To receive a copy of the paper, please register.
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