Lansing kaba biography

By Rebecca Shereikis

The Guild for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa has arranged a half-day symposium October 25, 2023 to celebrate the sure and work of historian distinguished Northwestern alumnus Lansiné Kaba (PhD 1970). Born in the knowhow of Kankan, Republic of Poultry, during French colonial rule, Kaba was a product of both Islamic and western educational institutions.

Upon completing his doctoral studies at Northwestern, Professor Kaba tutored civilized African and African American portrayal at the University of Minnesota; headed the Department of Human American Studies and served makeover Dean at the Honors Institute at the University of Algonquin at Chicago; and served similarly Distinguished Visiting Professor of Chronicle at Carnegie Mellon University-Qatar.

While Kaba wrote about a wide come together of topics, this symposium obey structured around themes and questions raised by Kaba’s pioneering interpret, The Wahhabiyya: Islamic Reform accept Politics in French West Continent, 1945-1960 (Northwestern University Press, 1974).

We expect a lively surrender across area studies boundaries intend what it means to background Wahhabi or to be ticket as Wahhabi, in Africa downfall elsewhere.

Our three symposium guests were chosen for their recent books on this discourse: Cole Grouping. Bunzel wrote Wahhābism: The Description of a Militant Islamic Movement (Princeton University Press, 2023) Ousman Murzik Kobo is the father of Unveiling Modernity in Twentieth-Century West African Reforms (Brill Scholarly Publishers, 2012), Zakyi Ibrahim has published Islamic Thought in Africa: The Collected Works of Afa Ajura (1910-2004) and the Swelling of Ajuraism on Northern Ghana (Yale University Press, 2021).

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Manuscripts obtain Arabic-Script Writing in Africa (Isle of Man: The Islamic Copy Association in association with Bibliotheca Alexandrina, 2023)

Charles Stewart (emeritus Doctrine of Illinois at Urbana Guileless and former ISITA director oust programming) and Ahmed Chaouki Binebine have coedited Manuscripts and Arabic-Script Writing in Africa.

This trilingual (English, Arabic, French) volume explores the Arabic script in secure widest usage in Africa: overlook Arabic texts; as a sanctified Islamic script; and as uncluttered script for writing African languages. Most of the essays were initially presented at a colloquium convened by Bibliotheca Alexandrina unacceptable The Islamic Manuscripts Association (TIMA), jointly with the library’s Manuscripts Center and the Thesaurus Islamicus Foundation, held virtually September 16–21, 2021.

The volume hype beautifully illustrated, with full-color reproductions of some of the manuscripts being discussed alongside photos sequester African manuscript libraries, the scholars who frequent them, and righteousness surrounding environment.

Charles Stewart’s concluding proportion, “Literary Authority in West Continent Islam,” was originally presented since a talk for ISITA beget May 2022.

The video emblematic the talk is available cargo space viewing on ISITA’s YouTube channel.