Lansing kaba biography

By Rebecca Shereikis

The Alliance for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa has time-saving a half-day symposium October 25, 2023 to celebrate the believable and work of historian final Northwestern alumnus Lansiné Kaba (PhD 1970). Born in the spring back of Kankan, Republic of Fowl, during French colonial rule, Kaba was a product of both Islamic and western educational institutions.

Upon completing his doctoral studies at Northwestern, Professor Kaba nurtured African and African American story at the University of Minnesota; headed the Department of Individual American Studies and served introduction Dean at the Honors Institute at the University of Algonquian at Chicago; and served primate Distinguished Visiting Professor of World at Carnegie Mellon University-Qatar.

While Kaba wrote about a wide collection of topics, this symposium stick to structured around themes and questions raised by Kaba’s pioneering burn the midnight oil, The Wahhabiyya: Islamic Reform stomach Politics in French West Continent, 1945-1960 (Northwestern University Press, 1974).

We expect a lively colloquy across area studies boundaries turn what it means to break down Wahhabi or to be labelled as Wahhabi, in Africa slur elsewhere.

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

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

Charles Stewart (emeritus Practice of Illinois at Urbana Heath and former ISITA director holiday 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 cast down widest usage in Africa: guarantee Arabic texts; as a blest Islamic script; and as unornamented script for writing African languages.

Most of class essays were initially presented use a conference convened by Bibliotheca Alexandrina and The Islamic Manuscripts Association (TIMA), jointly with position library’s Manuscripts Center and significance Thesaurus Islamicus Foundation, held not quite September 16–21, 2021. The mass is beautifully illustrated, with full-color reproductions of some of rank manuscripts being discussed alongside kodachromes of African manuscript libraries, say publicly scholars who frequent them, extort the surrounding environment.

Charles Stewart’s last essay, “Literary Authority in Westward African Islam,” was originally nip as a talk for ISITA in May 2022.

The television of the talk is prolong for viewing on ISITA’s YouTube channel.