Ali Diakite completed his PhD at the École Normale Supérieure in Lyon, France, on West African intellectual life in the 19th century. A native speaker of Arabic, Fulfulde, and Bambara, Diakite completed his MA work in Arabic Studies at the […]
Ali Diakite completed his PhD at the École Normale Supérieure in Lyon, France, on West African intellectual life in the 19th century. A native speaker of Arabic, Fulfulde, and Bambara, Diakite completed his MA work in Arabic Studies at the […]
Olga Verlato is a PhD candidate in History and Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University. Her research examines the cultural and social history of modern Egypt, focusing on the question of linguistic diversity, multilingual printing, and education. […]
Saidy holds a PhD degree in manuscript editing from Abdelmalek Essaâdi University, Tetouan, and teaches at the Faculty of Sharia, Ibn Zohr University, Agadir, Morocco. He published a number of books, including: Ibn Nasser Catalogue, introduction and editing, Beirut, 2005; […]
Amidu Olalekan Sanni is a Professor of African and Middle Eastern Studies with the Fountain University, Osogbo Nigeria. He graduated with First Class in Arabic Language and Literature from the University of Ibadan in 1980 and completed a PhD programme […]
Dr. Samba Camara is a Teaching Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is a specialist of West African oral tradition and literature, and his research investigates the crossroads of the religious and the profane […]
Dmitry Bondarev is a researcher and head of West Africa projects at the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, University of Hamburg. In the past he worked at SOAS, University of London, investigating annotations in early Nigerian Qur’anic manuscripts. His research interests cover African […]
Djim Othman Drame started studying the Holy Quran at young age in his family’s house before joining the school of Sheikh Ahmad Al-Saghir Louh in Koki, Senegal. After that, he joined the French Arabic School in Dakar. In 1990, he […]
Jonathan E. Brockopp is Professor of History and Religious Studies at the Pennsylvania State University. A student of early Muslim legal texts, he is the author or editor of several books, including Early Mālikī Law (Brill, 2000), The Cambridge Companion […]
Al-Chadili has been a Professor of African History, Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences, University of Hassan II Casablanca, Morocco, since 1986. She is a graduate of Sorbonne University, and holds a PhD in Contemporary African History, University of Hassan […]