The Long Presence of African Muslims in the Americas

Part of the Africa, Globalization, and the Muslim World conference, held Sept. 19-21, 2019, at HDS and Harvard.

Chair: Charles Hallisey, Harvard Divinity School

Diego Giovanni Castellanos, National University of Colombia, “Muslim identity and social marginality among an African descendant Colombian community”

Madina Thiam, University of California Los Angeles, “Absolutely and utterly free” Sahelian Kinship¨ Muslim Schooling¨ and Emancipation between Jamaica and the Middle Nigeria c. 1790 -1854”

Ayodeji Ogunnaike, Bowdoin College, “Bilad al-Brazil: The Importance of West African Scholars in Brazilian Islamic Education and Practice in Historic and Contemporary Perspective”

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