Cheikh Anta Mbacke Babou (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia)

Submitted: Sat, June 14, 2008


Dr. Cheikh Anta Mbacke Babou
Assistant Professor
Department of History
University of Pennsylvania
College Hall, 306G
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania  19104-6379  USA

phone:   215-898-2188
e-mail:  cheikh@sas.upenn.edu


My work is about Islam and particularly Sufi Islam and education in Senegal 
and West Africa.  I am also interested in the contemporary Senegalese
diasporas in Europe and the United States.


Selected publications:

2007    Fighting the greater jihad: Amadu Bamba and the founding of the 
Muridiyya of Senegal, 1853-1913.  Athens : Ohio University Press.

2002  "Brotherhood Solidarity, Education and Migration: The Role of the
Dahira among the Murid Community of New York." African Affairs, 101
(April 2002): 151-170.

1997  "Autour de la Genèse du Mouridisme." Islam and
Société au Sud du Sahara, No. 11 (Novembre 1997): 5-36.