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Instructor: Ousmane Kane An estimated 450 to 500 million Muslims live in Africa—close to a third of the global Muslim population. The overwhelming majority of them lives in the northern half of the continent, above the equator. The spread of Islam...

Instructor: Teren Sevea How did Islamic missions and missionaries reform Muslim South and Southeast Asia? What Islamic missionary idioms, orientations and movements emerged in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries? Were South and Southeast Asia global...

Instructor: Jacob Olupona This course focuses on the history and phenomenology of African peoples’ religious experiences in the Americas. The historical and social processes that led to the emergence of African diasporic religions in Latin America and the...

Intructor: Jacob Olupona This course focuses on the history and phenomenology of African peoples’ religious experiences in the Americas. The historical and social processes that led to the emergence of African diasporic religions in Latin America and the...

Instructor: Emad Shahin The concepts of Jihad, war and peace are clearly distinct in Islamic law. However, Jihad, war and violence are often conflated and are perceived as one and the same. Islam is often associated with war and violence and not peace...

Instructors: Teren Sevea and Ali Asani Does thinking oceanically influence the study of Islam? Can we remember a people’s history of the Indian Ocean world? This course considers these questions and others as it focuses on religious worlds within port...