ASA 2019

At the 62th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association in Boston, MA, the IASG sponsored three panels and two roundtables:

Muslim Minorities in Africa

Chair: Frédérick Madore (University of Florida)

Discussant: John Hanson (Indiana University-Bloomington)

  • Islam and Politics in the DR Congo (Ashley Leinweber, Missouri State University)
  • Un/making religious difference through auditory practices? Muslims as a religious minority in southwestern Uganda (Dorethea Shulz, University of Münster)
  • The Challenges of Ahmadiyya Community’s Commitment for Development and Modern Humanitarianism (Katrin Langewiesche, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität)
  • “Good Muslim, Bad Muslim” in Togo: The Construction of a Religious Minority Amid a Constitutional Crisis (2017-2018) (Frédérick Madore, University of Florida)

Roundtable: Islamic Manuscripts, Muslim Intellectuals, and European Colonialisms in West Africa Part I

Chair: Bernard Salvaing (University of Nantes)

  • Amir Syed (University of Pittsburgh)
  • Bernard Salvaing (University of Nantes)
  • Bruce Hall (University of California, Berkeley)
  • Mauro Nobili (University of Illinois)

Roundtable: Islamic Manuscripts, Muslim Intellectuals, and European Colonialisms in West Africa Part II

Chair: Bruce Hall (University of California, Berkeley)

  • Coloniality in Shaykh Musa Kamara’s Arabic-language texts (Wendell Marsh, Rutgers University-Newark)
  • French colonization as seen by Ajami Muslim texts in Futa Jallon, Guinea (Bernard Salvaing, University of Nantes)
  • A Wolof ‘Ajamī Manuscript on the French (Fallou Ngom, Boston University)
  • Mobile Islamic and Family Networks on the Western Indian Ocean Rim

Mobile Islamic and Family Networks on the Western Indian Ocean Rim

Chair: Nathaniel Mathews (Binghamton University)

Co-Chair: Kimberly Wortmann (Wake Forest University)

  • Hierarchies of Mobility: The Role of Migration, Marriage, and Class on Nation-Building in Modern Oman (Irtefa Binte-Farid, University of Virginia)
  • Spiritual Capital in Zanzibar: Islamic Education in the Time of Primitive Accumulation (Caity Bolton, Graduate Center, City University of New York)
  • Naziha Knows the World: The Transnational Life of an Immobile Woman, a Critical Biography (Jodie Marshall, Michigan State University)
  • The Self-Sustaining Mosque: the intersection between religion and business in downtown Mwanza (Kimberly Wortmann, Wake Forest University)

Discussant: Mandana Limbert (Graduate Center, CUNY)

Mobile Islam: Public performance of piety and place making among African Muslim immigrants

Chair: Cheikh Babou (University of Pennsylvania)

Co-Chair: Abdoulaye Kane (University of Florida)

  • Murids making place in New York: The celebrations of Ahmadu Bamba Day in Harlem (July 28) (Cheikh Babou, University of Pennsylvania)
  • Haalpulaar Tijani Satellite Communities in the Making in Europe and America (Abdoulaye Kane, University of Florida)
  • The Kyrie as a Sufi Dhikr: Muslim Sounds, Ideas and Bodies in the Catholic Hymns of Julien Jouga (Christine Thu Nhi Dang, New York University)