At the 65th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association in Philadelphia, PA, the IASG sponsored two panels and a roundtable
New Trends in the Study of Islam in Africa
Chair: Kimberly Wortmann, Wake Forest University
- Al-Azhar reforms and West African students (1870s-1920s) (Siga Maguiraga, European University Institute, Florence, Italy)
- Islam in Southern Africa – Al- Qalam: An Alternative Muslim Voice in the Press (Imraan Buccus, Durban University of Technology/School for International Training)
- The Test of Waiting: Patience, Piety, and Power in Zanzibar (Tanvi Kapoor, New York University)
- Slavery in Islam between Western Scholarship and Muslim Liberation Theolog(ies) (May Kosba, Graduate Theological Union)
Archives of Knowledge, Knowledge Archived: Critical Perspectives on Islamic Sources in African Studies and the Politics of their Production
Chair: Bruce Hall (University of California, Berkeley)
- Texts as Artifacts: A Preliminary Investigation into the Multiple Lives of the Bibliothèque ‘Umarienne de Ségou (Amir Syed, University of Pittsburgh)
- The Fonds de Gironcourt (Institut de France): Philological Encounters and the Making of Archives in Colonial West Africa (Mauro Nobili, University of Illinois)
- The Other Archive: Private Archival Traditions in Islamic West Africa (Jeremy Dell, University of Edinburgh)
- Hiding in Plain Sight: Truly local knowledge traditions in the libraries of Timbuktu (Paul Naylor, Hill Museum and Manuscript Library, Minnesota)
Author Meets the Critics on Mauro Nobili, Sultan, Caliph, and the Renewer of the Faith
Chair: Madina Thiam (University of California, Los Angeles)
Book Title: Sultan, Caliph, and the Renewer of the Faith: Ahmad Lobbo, the Tārīkh al-fattāsh and the Making of an Islamic State in West Africa
Author: Mauro Nobili (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
- Jeremy Dell, University of Edinburgh
- Bruce Hall, University of California, Berkeley
- Abdulbasit Kassim, Rice University
- Ann McDougall, University of Alberta