The Lansine Kaba Symposium
Posted October 30, 2023
By Rebecca Shereikis The Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa has organized a half-day symposium October 25, 2023 to celebrate the...Category: ISITA
NEH award supports development of digital manuscript collection
Posted June 16, 2022
By Rebecca Shereikis, associate director of ISITA The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded a $59,571 planning grant to Northwestern’s Institute for...
Workshop on “Teaching with West African Manuscript Collections”: A student’s perspective
Posted June 14, 2022
By Xena Amro A May 2022 workshop organized by ISITA and the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures at the University of Hamburg...
ISITA welcomes new grad assistant
Posted May 12, 2022
ISITA welcomes Xena Amro as the Institute’s part-time graduate assistant for the 2022-2023 academic year. Xena is a second-year Ph.D. student in Comparative Literary...
ISITA Dialogues speaker series (winter/spring 2021) available on Youtube
Posted September 12, 2021
Videos of the talks in the ISITA Dialogues speaker series (winter/spring 2021) are available for viewing on ISITA’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8Uh4PiEZozmK_5QwpcLQAw. ...
Revisiting the book “Remaking Islam in African Portugal: Lisbon – Mecca – Bissau”
Posted May 15, 2021
by Michelle Johnson (anthropology, Bucknell University) For decades, scholars have explored the dynamic between Islam and local cultures. When I began my fieldwork in...
Reflections on the book “Jihadists of North Africa and the Sahel”
Posted April 15, 2021
by Alexander Thurston (political science, University of Cincinnati) When I began my Ph.D. work at Northwestern in 2009, I was – and I remain...
The Khoja: a story of economic and and social resilience in the face of war, revolution, and expulsion
Posted April 7, 2021
by Iqbal Akhtar (Florida International University) The idea of African as a conciousness emerges through colonization in much the same way the idea of...
African Muslims Enslaved in the Caribbean
Posted March 5, 2021
by Aliyah Khan (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) Ayuba Suleiman Diallo (1701–1773), Fula Muslim of Senegal, was one of an unknown number of West...
Edward Blyden and the Gaze in African Intellectual History
Posted February 19, 2021
by Harry Nii Koney Odamtten (Santa Clara University) Edward Wilmot Blyden (1832-1912) needs no introduction in most academic circles. He is a celebrated figure...