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In this episode, we discuss the new edited volume, Islamic Scholarship in Africa: New Directions and Global Contexts, with its editor, Professor Ousmane Kane, and his colleague, Dr. Ebrima Sall, who wrote the conclusion. This volume is the product of two conferences convened at Harvard by Professor Kane in 2017 on "Texts, Knowledge, and Practice: The Meaning of Scholarship in Muslim Africa" and "New Directions in the Study of Islamic Scholarship in Africa" that brought together scholars of diverse disciplines from around the world to explore the understudied tradition of Arabo-Islamic scholarship in Africa. Professor Kane and Dr. Sall talk about what led them to want to bridge the divides between different knowledge traditions and comment on the contributions of 19 scholars to this volume on themes that include Islamic scholarly networks, textuality and orality in Islamic scholarship, the transformation of Islamic education in Africa, and the role of 'Ajami and Sufism in the transmission of Islamic knowledge in the region. Ousmane Kane is Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Professor of Islamic Religion and Society at Harvard Divinity School and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University.Ebrima Sall is the executive director of Trust Africa and former executive secretary of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA). Credits and transcript: islamicstudies.harvard.edu/ep-10-islamic-scholarship-africa-ousmane-kane-and-ebrima-sall

In this episode, we discuss the new edited volume, <a href="https://boydellandbrewer.com/9781847012319/islamic-scholarship-in-africa/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Islamic Scholarship in Africa: New Directions and Global Contexts</a>, with its editor, Professor Ousmane Kane, and his colleague, Dr. Ebrima Sall, who wrote the conclusion. This volume is the product of two conferences convened at Harvard by Professor Kane in 2017 on "Texts, Knowledge, and Practice: The Meaning of Scholarship in Muslim Africa" and "New Directions in the Study of Islamic Scholarship in Africa" that brought together scholars of diverse disciplines from around the world to explore the understudied tradition of Arabo-Islamic scholarship in Africa. Professor Kane and Dr. Sall talk about what led them to want to bridge the divides between different knowledge traditions and comment on the contributions of 19 scholars to this volume on themes that include Islamic scholarly networks, textuality and orality in Islamic scholarship, the transformation of Islamic education in Africa, and the role of 'Ajami and Sufism in the transmission of Islamic knowledge in the region. <a href="https://scholar.harvard.edu/ousmanekane/home" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Ousmane Kane</a> is Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Professor of Islamic Religion and Society at Harvard Divinity School and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University.<a href="https://www.trustafrica.org/en/about-us/board/item/3163-ebrima-sall-executive-director" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Ebrima Sall</a> is the executive director of Trust Africa and former executive secretary of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA). Credits and transcript: <a href="https://islamicstudies.harvard.edu/ep-10-islamic-scholarship-africa-ousmane-kane-and-ebrima-sall" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">islamicstudies.harvard.edu/ep-10-islamic-scholarship-africa-ousmane-kane-and-ebrima-sall</a>

Ep. 10 | Islamic Scholarship in Africa | Ousmane Kane and Ebrima Sall

As part of the efforts to promote the study of Islam in Africa at Harvard, an Islam in Africa conference series was initiated under the sponsorship of HDS, NELC, CAS, AAAS, and the Hutchins Center with the goal to convene an international symposium every year to facilitate intellectual conversation between junior and senior scholars involved in cutting edge research in the field. In line with the mission of the Alwaleed Chair in Contemporary Islamic Religion and Society, this conference series is centered on the history of Muslim institutions and ideas in Africa.

Ousmane Kane's Keynote: The Transformation of the Pilgrimage Tradition in West Africa