Panel 3 of West Africa and the Maghreb: Re-evalutating the Historic Core Curriculum

Panelists:

Ismail Warcheid, CNRS France, “Scholarly Networks, Legal Debates, and Territorial Integration”

David Owen, Harvard University, “Of Radd and Sharḥ and Ṭurra: The Long and Late Dynamism of the African Commentary Tradition on Akhḍarī's Sullam on Avicennian Organon Logic”

Alexis Trouillot, Université Paris VII, “The Study of Mathematics in the Sahel from the 15thto the 20th C.”

Abubakar Abdulkadir, University of Alberta, Canada, “Poetry in West Africa and the Maghreb”

Chair: Charles Hallisey, Harvard Divinity School

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.

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