The Harvard Islam in Africa Initiative hosted its fifth annual conference on the theme, “The Fayḍa Tijāniyya Sufi Community in the Twenty-First Century: A Major Articulation of Global Islam.”
The conference was convened by Ousmane Kane, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor of Contemporary Islamic Religion and Society, Professor of African and African American Studies (FAS).
Panel 1: Epistemological Foundations of Tijāniyya Sufism
The Sources of Kitāb al-Rimāḥ in Focus: Late Mamluk/Early Ottoman Egyptian Scholars
Farah El-Sharif, Harvard University
Praise Poetry and Political Imagination: The Prophet and Divine Sovereignty in the Construction of ʿUmar Tall’s Authority
Amir Syed, University of Pittsburg
The Epistemic Foundation of Tijāniyya in Quranic Verses of Dhikr: Analysis of Shaykh Dahiru Bauchi’s Commentary in Nigeria (1950s -2020)
Umar Tahir, Columbia University
The Zayd of the Fayḍa: Muḥ ammad Ibn al-Shaykh ʿAbdullāh and His Compilations
Adnan Adrian Wood Smith, Harvard University