West African Roots of American Islam (Part 1 of 8)

What's a nineteenth century Nigerian woman Sufi poet doing in Pittsburgh, Los Angeles, Hartford, and Springfield? She's teaching women about living in the world, just as she did in her own time and place. Like nineteenth century Nana Asma'u, contemporary American Muslim women follow a study program that has its roots in the tenth century, while they have their feet in the twenty-first. hey are separated by 150 years, on different continents, and communicating with technology Asma'u could not have imagined, but the message is the same, and every bit as relevant today as it was in pre-colonial Nigeria.
Lecture delivered on Wednesday, April 20, 2011, at 4:00 p.m., in the African Studies Center's William O. Brown Seminar Room
232 Bay State Road, Room 505

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Education

Tags:

• Beverly Mack
• Islam
• West Africa
• American Islam
• Nana Asma'u
• Muslim Women
• pre-colonial Nigeria