Ifriqiyya is a faculty seminar and study group concerned with the study of Islam in Africa. The word "Ifriqiyya" is a name that Rome gave to its southernmost province (Tunisia), that Ibn Khaldun used to refer to lands to the south, a region that Hegel characterized as Africa proper in contradistinction to European Africa. (North Africa) and Asiatic Africa (Egypt, Nubia and Ethiopia). Ifriqiyya appropriately highlights the instability of the contemporary designation, Africa, and the debates around it.
The group meets once a month during the academic year, and also organizes occasional public lectures.
For more information, contact Professor Mahmood Mamdani.
Spring 2012 SCHEDULE
UPCOMING EVENTS
Public Lecture:
Writing Identity and Community in Walata: Southern Saharan Ethnogenesis through Arabic Texts
Timothy Cleaveland, University of Georgia
May 3, 2012
Room 208 Knox Hall 1:00pm - 3:00pm
RECENT EVENTS
Public Lecture:
The 21st Century 'Yan Taru
Beverly Mack, University of Kansas
April 5, 2012
Room 208 Knox Hall 1:00pm - 3:00pm
Public Lecture:
Islamic Reformist Ideas in East Africa c. 1880-1940
Anne Bang, University of Bergen, Norway
March 1, 2012
Room 208 Knox Hall 12:00-2:00pm
Public Lecture: The First Atlantic Revolution: Islam, Abolition, and Republicanism in Senegambia, c. 1776
Rudolph T. Ware, University of Michigan. Assistant Professor, History Department,
University of Michigan (Ann Harbor, Michigan)
December 1, 2011
Room 207 Knox Hall 12-2pm
September 8, 2011 @ Room 207 Knox Hall 12-2pm.
Gwyn Campbell, McGill University. Professor and Canada Research Chair in Indian Ocean World History, History and Classical Studies, McGill University (Montreal, Canada)
Public Lecture: The Rise and Development of the Indian Ocean World Economy
October 12, 2011 @ Room 208 Knox Hall 12-2pm.
Fatima Harrack, University of Mohamed V Institute of African Studies, Morocco. Professor and Coordinator of the African Religious Dynamics Team, Institute of Africa Studies, Mohamed V University (Rabat, Morocco)
Public Lecture: The Indigenous Populations of North Africa
IFRIQIYYA SERIES
Oceanic Poetry: Tagore and His Times
Sugata Bose, Harvard University. Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs, History Department, Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
November 17, 2011
Room 207 Knox Hall 12-2pm
MESAAS organizes or co-sponsors the following regular events:
