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Public Lecture at Wake Forest College

March 4, 2019

Time: 5:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Location: ZSR Library Auditorium

Professor Kane’s latest book titled “Beyond Timbuktu: An Intellectual History of Muslim West Africa.”

Timbuktu is famous as a great center of Muslim learning from Islam’s Golden Age. Beyond Timbuktu charts the rise of Muslim learning in West Africa from the beginning of Islam
to the present day, examining the shifting contexts that have influenced the production and dissemination of Islamic knowledge - and shaped the sometimes...
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Kane to Lead Search for First Muslim Chaplain

January 31, 2017
In a letter last weekend to the Harvard community supporting international students and faculty, President Drew Faust unveiled a plan to appoint the first full-time University-wide Muslim chaplain. Under the plan, which was the result of months of discussion, the search for a chaplain will be led by a committee of students, faculty, and staff chaired by Harvard Divinity School Professor Ousmane Kane.... Read more about Kane to Lead Search for First Muslim Chaplain

Weaving Africa Into the Tapestry of Islam

January 23, 2017

—by Paul Massari

Ousmane Kane, HDS’s Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor of Contemporary Islamic Religion and Society, wants to paint a much broader and more accurate picture of Islam. A leader among a burgeoning group of scholars in the field, Kane works to bring the Muslim heritage of Africa to light.

“In the West, Islam is strongly associated with the Middle East,” he explains. “Even in academia, most of the books published each year focus on that region. In fact, the...

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From Medieval Sankore to Modern Say: Islamic Institutions of Higher Learning in Africa in Historical and Comparative Perspective

March 6, 2014

Ousmane Oumar Kane delivered the inaugural Prince Alwaleed bin Talal lecture on March 6, 2014, and was titled "From Medieval Sankore to Modern Say: Islamic Institutions of Higher Learning in Africa in Historical and Comparative Perspective."

Kane is Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Professor of Contemporary Islamic Religion and Society at HDS.

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