Ousmane Oumar Kane

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Ousmane Oumar Kane ( Arabic كن ، عثمان, also: ʻUthmān Kan ) is Professor of Islamic Religion and Contemporary Society on the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Chair on Contemporary Islamic Religion and Society at Harvard Divinity School and at the Department of Near Eastern Languages ​​and Civilization at Harvard University since July 2012.

Life

Kane holds a Bachelor of Arts in Arabic and a Masters in Islamic Studies from the Institut National des Langues et Civilizations Orientales at the University of Paris (Sorbonne Nouvelle) as well as an M. Phil and a Ph.D. (1993) in Political Science and Middle Eastern Studies at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris . He first became Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Université Gaston Berger de Saint-Louis in Senegal , and took up teaching positions at the University of London , the University of Kansas , Yale and the Institute for Advanced Study Berlin. He got his first permanent position as Associate Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University in 2002. In 2012 he left this position for the chair at Harvard. In March 2015, he was awarded the Everett Mendelssohn Prize for Excellence in Mentoring by the Harvard Graduate Student Council of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences .

Kane works on Islamic Society in West Africa .

Publications

  • Beyond Timbuktu: An Intellectual History of Muslim West Africa. Harvard University Press 2016. ISBN 9780674050822
  • The Homeland is the Arena: Religion, Transnationalism and the Integration of Senegalese Migrants in America, New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. ISBN 9780199732302
  • Muslim Modernity in Postcolonial Nigeria. A Study of the Society of the Removal of Innovation and Reinstatement of Tradition, Leiden, Boston: EJ Brill 2003 ISBN 9789004125889
  • Intellectuels non Europhones. Dakar: CODESRIA (Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa) 2003. Translations into English (Non-Europhone intellectuals) , Spanish, Arabic.
  • Al-Makhtutat al-islamiyya fi Sinighal. ( ابراهيم نياس في السنغال / Fihris makhṭūṭāt Maktabat al-Shaykh Mūr Mubay Sīsī wa-maktabat al-Ḥājj Mālik Sih wa-Maktabat al-Shaykh Ibrāhīm-Furcript , 1997 in London Al- Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niyāsigh-Furcript , Manqénus -Sin-Sin-script of Islam , Niyās -Sincript , London .
  • Islam et islamisme au Sud du Sahara. (with Jean-Louis Triaud), Paris, Karthala 1998.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ LC Authority file
  2. ^ Official homepage of the Harvard Divinity School . hds.harvard.edu 2020-05-29.

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personal data
SURNAME Kane, Ousmane Oumar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES كن ، عثمان (Arabic); Kan, ʻUthman
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Senegalese-American scholar of Islam
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century