Ousmane Kane (Columbia University, New York, New York)
Submitted: Sun, March 27, 2011
Dr. Ousmane Kane
Associate Professor
School of International & Public Affairs
Columbia University
Room 826
420 West 118th Street
New York, New York 10027 USA
***On sabbatical leave: August 2010--August 2011***
phone messages: 212-854-2423
e-mail: ok2009@columbia.edu or cheikhousmane@yahoo.com
Teaching interests:
Politics in West Africa ; Political Development in the Third World ;
Political Islam ; Immigration and Globalization
Research interests:
African Muslim immigrants in America; comparative studies in Islamic education in Africa
(Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa) ; comparative politics ; comparative Muslim societies ;
International migration ; intellectual history of Sub-Saharan Africa ; Northern Nigeria.
September 2003 to July 2004, Research Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg
zu Berlin (Institute for Advanced Study) in Berlin, Germany.
2000-2008 Co-editor (with Imtiaz Ahmed) of Identity, culture and politics:
an Afro-Asian dialogue. A publication of CODESRIA (Dakar, Senegal),
Centre for Alternatives (Dhaka, Bangladesh), and International Centre for
Ethnic Studies (Colombo, Sri Lanka).
Selected publications:
2011 The homeland is the arena: religion, transnationalism and the
integration of Senegalese immigrants in America. Oxford; New York:
Oxford University Press.
2009 "Les marabouts sénégalais et leur clientle aux
Etats-Unis d'Amérique: une économie spirituelle
transnationale?" Afrique contemporaine. 231, 3: 209-28.
2008 "Islamism, what is new, what is not?: lessons from West Africa,"
African journal of international affairs 11, 2 (2008): 157-87.
2008 "The Shifts in Hizbullah's Ideology: Religious Ideology, Political
Ideology and Political Program," Arab Studies Quarterly Spring 30(2) 68.
2007 "Moderate revivalists," Harvard international review. vol. 29, no. 2
(Summer 2007): 64-67.
2003 "Senegambia I: the Niassene tradition" (with John Hunwick, Rüdiger
Seeesemann) ; "Senegambia II: other Tijani writers" (with John Hunwick) ;
"Senegambia III: writers of the Murid tariqa" (with John Hunwick) ; and, "Other
writings of the Senegambian region" (with John Hunwick), in John Hunwick (comp.)
Arabic literature of Africa, vol. IV: writings of western Sudanic Africa.
Leiden, The Netherlands, E.J. Brill, 2003.
2003 Intellectuels non-europhones. Dakar, Senegal : Conseil
pour le développement de la recherche en sciences sociales (CODESRIA).
La version électronique est disponible à l'adresse suivante:
http://www.codesria.org/Links/Publications/monographs/ousmane_kane.pdf
2002 Muslim modernity in postcolonial Nigeria : a study of the Society
for the Removal of Innovation and Reinstatement of Tradition. Leiden, The Netherlands:
E.J. Brill, 2002.
2002 "Réflexions sur les émeutes interconfessionnelles du
nord du Nigéria," Politique étrangère, 3, 2002, 749-64.
2000 "Muhammad Niasse (1881-1956) et sa réplique contre le
pamphlet anti-tijani de Ibn Mayaba," in Jean-Louis Triaud et David
Robinson (eds.) La Tijaniyya: une confrérie musulmane à
la conquête de l'Afrique. Paris: Karthala, 2000. pp. 219-36
"Religion et politique dans les fiefs confrériques du
Sénégal," in GERCOP: analyse des élections
législatives de mai 1998 au Sénégal, Saint-Louis.
Saint-Louis, Sénégal: Presses universitaires de Saint-Louis.
1999 "La polémique contre le soufisme et les ordres soufis en
Afrique de l'Ouest post-coloniale," in Frederick de Jong & Bernd Radtk
(eds.) Islamic mysticism contested: thirteen centuries of controversies
and polemics. Leiden: E.J. Brill. pp. 324-40.
"La citoyenneté, la société et l'état: le modèle sénégalais,"
Revue sénégalaise de sociologie, 2-3, 1998-1999: 231-40.
1998 Islam et islamisme au sud du Sahara. Sous la direction de
Ousmane Kane et Jean-Louis Triaud. Paris: Karthala : Maison des sciences
de l'homme.
With Leonardo A. Villalon. "Senegal: the crisis of democracy and
the emergence of an Islamic opposition." In The African state at a
critical juncture: between disintegration and reconfiguration. Ed. by
Leonardo A. Villalon, Phillip A. Huxtable. Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner
Publishers.
1997 "Un pluralisme en quête de démocratie," in François Constantin & Christian
Coulon (eds.), Religion et transition démocratique en Afrique. Paris: Karthala.
pp. 51-79.
"Shaikh al-Islam al-Hajj Ibrahim Niasse," in David Robinson and
Jean-Louis Triaud (eds.) Le temps des marabouts: itinéraires et
stratégies islamiques en Afrique occidentale française c.
1880-1960. Paris: Karthala. pp. 299-316.
"Muslim missionaries and African states," in Susan Hoeber Rudolph
and James Piscatori (eds.) Transnational religion and fading
states. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press. pp. 47-62.
1994 "Senegal," in G.J. Roper (ed.) World survey of Islamic
manuscripts, Volume 3. Leiden: E.J. Brill. pp. 51-63
"Zawiyah," in John Esposito (ed.) The Oxford encyclopedia of the
modern Islamic world, Volume 4. New York: Oxford University Press.
pp. 370-73.
"Izala: the rise of Muslim reformism in Nigeria," in Martin Marty
and Scott Appelby (eds.) Accounting for fundamentalisms: the dynamic
character of movements. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
pp. 490-512.
1990 "Les mouvements religieux et le champ politique au Nigéria
septentrional: le cas du réformisme musulman à Kano,"
Islam et sociétés au sud du Sahara. 4 (1990): 7-24.
1989 "La confrérie Tijaniyya ibrahimiyya de Kano et ses liens
avec la zawiya-mère de Kaolack," Islam et sociétés
au sud du Sahara. 3 (1989): 27-40.
Selected review articles:
2009 Review article: "Autobiography and Decolonization: Modernity,
Masculinity, and the Nation-State," by Philip Holden. Biography Spring
32(2) 350-52.
2006 Review article: "Darfur: The Ambiguous Genocide," by Gerard Prunier.
Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 2005." Political science
quarterly, vol. 121, no. 2 (Summer 2006): 322-23.
2004 Review article: "Political talk, not cultural talk: Mamdani's take
on the roots of global terror," CODESRIA bulletin, vol. 2004,
nos. 3 & 4 (2004): 3-5.
See: http://www.codesria.org/Links/Publications/contents_bulletin/bulletin_3_2004.htm