The PeninsulaA new book by Zachary Wright explores eighteenthcentury Islamic scholarship in North Africa, with particular focus on the founding of Africa’s largest Sufi order, the Tijaniyya. Realizing Islam: The Tijaniyya in North Africa and the Eighteenth-Century Muslim World is being published by the University of North Carolina Press. He gave a lecture on “Intellectual Networks and Islamic Realization in 18th Century North Africa,” and shared insights in Islamic intellectual history and Islam in Africa. He earned his Ph.D. from Northwestern University, with a dissertation focusing on the history of Islamic knowledge transmission in West Africa. Wright’s work has focused primarily on Islamic learning and Sufism in West Africa.

Source: The North Africa Journal August 07, 2020 08:59 UTC