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DESCRIPTION:Join us for a Public Lecture\n\n“Decolonizing the Study of Isla
 m in Africa” \n\nGuest Speaker: Professor Ousmane Kane\n\nProf Kane is the
  emeritus and inaugural Alwaleed bin Talal Professor of Contemporary Islam
 ic Religion and Society at Harvard Divinity School and the world’s leading
  scholar of Islam in Africa. He is a specialist in the history of Islamic 
 religious institutions and intellectual history in Africa and has publishe
 d a number of groundbreaking publications on a range issues including migr
 ation\, modernity\, politics\, Sufism\, Islamic education and intellectual
  traditions\, and most recently pilgrimage. Some of his most prominent boo
 ks include Muslim Modernity in Postcolonial Nigeria (2003)\, Non-Europhone
  Intellectuals (2012)\, Beyond Timbuktu: An Intellectual History of Muslim
  West Africa (2016)\, and Islamic Scholarship in Africa: New Directions an
 d Global Contexts (2021). He was recently awarded the African Studies Asso
 ciation’s prestigious “Distinguished Africanist Award” in 2024 for his wor
 k uniting\, transforming\, and advancing the fields of African Studies and
  Islamic Studies.\n
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LOCATION:Birks Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 2A7\, 3520 rue Universit
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SUMMARY:Decolonizing the Study of Islam in Africa
URL:https://www.mcgill.ca/religiousstudies/channels/event/decolonizing-stud
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