Abstract: Ware’s impassioned condemnation of the idea of Islam noir is a reaction to its unfortunate consequences for the scholarly study of Africa and of Islam: the marginalization of Islam in the study of Africa and of Africa i…
Abstract: The publication of Rudolph Ware’s The Walking Qur’an revives the debate surrounding fundamentally divergent understandings of Islamic identity, the epistemological divide between Salafism and traditionally trained Afric…
Abstract: The Walking Qur’an by Rudolph T. Ware III ambitiously takes on African and Islamic studies in a call to make the study of Islam in Africa more central to the two fields that have left it lying in a double margin. By arg…
Abstract: Rudolph Ware’s groundbreaking work, The Walking Qur’an, is for the most part devoted to an important episode of the history of Senegambia known as “the Wars of the Marabouts.” Leaning on works by historians of the perio…
Abstract: This article uses Rudolph T. Ware III’s original and compelling book, The Walking Qur’an: Islamic Education, Embodied Knowledge, and History in West Africa, as a window through which to reflect on the contribution of We…
Abstract: In this essay, Ware contributes to the Kitabkhana discussion of his book, The Walking Qur’an. The essays in the book forum, he writes, open onto questions of historiography and philosophy, theology and epistemology. War…
Abstract: Ferguson reads a 2009 – 11 debate over the proposed reissue of Syria’s Personal Status Code in the Syrian feminist journal al-Thara to highlight the role women’s rights discourse plays in disciplining and producing poli…