H-IslamInAfrica

H-IslamInAfrica promotes scholarly research, both within and outside Africa, in all areas and disciplines of the social sciences and humanities relevant to Islam in Africa. We want to encourage international cooperation and facilitate the exchange of ideas and meaningful dialogue among persons engaged in research on Islam in Africa. Toward those ends, the network aims to:

Encourage the publication and dissemination of scholarly and artistic works as well as primary sources on Islamic studies and related topics.
Organize panels, symposia, and conferences on Islam in Africa at meetings of regional, national and international organizations.
And provide the general public with information on issues of historical, cultural, and contemporary interest in Islam in Africa.

Date: Monday, February 24, 2020, 5:30pm to 7:00pm

Location: CMES, Rm 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138

(Please note: this talk was originally scheduled for February 19)

Ridha Moumni obtained his Ph.D in Art History and Archaeology from the Sorbonne, in Paris. His research explores Tunisian classical, modern and contemporary art from a global and transnational

Islam in Africa in Global Context” - Post-doc position at UF

Dear all,

I want to draw your attention to this opportunity:

The University of Florida, with a grant from the Henry Luce Foundation’s Initiative on Religion in International Affairs, will appoint a postdoctoral associate to begin August 16, 2020. This is a full-time one-year position to work within the project “Islam in Africa in Global Context.” We are particularly interested in candidates working on contemporary Muslim-Christian encounters in Africa with expertise in a particular region but also interest in comparative reflection about such encounters across space and time.

For more details

Workshop - Arabic Pasts: Histories and Historiographies

This annual exploratory and informal workshop offers the opportunity to reflect on methodologies, research agendas, and case studies for investigating history writing in Arabic in the Middle East and North Africa in any period from the seventh century to the present

Papers will elucidate the following sorts of questions:

Through what practices of writing or otherwise encoding the past and of remembering and forgetting, have different groups in the Middle East and North Africa viewed their pasts?
At different times and places, how have the significant contours, events and actors in their

Request for Proposals to organize the 2020 AIMS Conference

The American Institute for Maghrib Studies is seeking proposals for its 2020 annual conference. The annual AIMS conference is a signature event that brings together delegations of scholars from the US, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and occasionally individual scholars from other countries, as appropriate. The 2020 AIMS conference will be held in Tangier in late summer 2020. AIMS members who are interested in proposing a theme with resonance across North Africa are encouraged to submit a formal proposal no later than January 31, 2020. The selection committee will look favorably on applications