16:00 - 17:30
Polemics, Rhetoric, and Power
Room: Arts - Lecture Room 1
Stream: Muslim Written Intellectual Tradition in Africa
Chair/s:
Mauro Nobili
16:00 - 16:15
Tu-A31 Islamic Manuscripts 2-P-001
Registers of Rhetoric: Commentary and Classical Islamic Scholarship through the
Kitāb al-Rimāḥ
Amir Syed
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, United States
16:15 - 16:30
Tu-A31 Islamic Manuscripts 2-P-002
A Salafi Sūfi? Hājj ʿUmar al-Fūti’s Anti-Madhabism in Kitāb al-Rimāḥ
Farah El-Sharif
Harvard University, Cambridge, United States
16:30 - 16:45
Tu-A31 Islamic Manuscripts 2-P-003
North African Muslim Scholars and their Influence on Western Sudan Kingdoms: the Case of al-Maghili
Tahar Abbou
University of Adrar, Adrar, Algeria