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Mbaye Lo

Mbaye Lo

Professor of the Practice of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
mbaye.lo@duke.edu
Box 90414, Durham, NC 27708-0414
2204 Erwin Road Room 231, Box 90414, Durham, NC 27708
Office hours Monday & Wednesday 2-5 pm  

Scholarly Works - Book sections

Black Africans in Arabic Sources: A Critical Assessment of Method and Rhetoric

Book section · September 27, 2020 Featured Publication Blacks of African background played a pioneering role in the intellectual and political life of pre-Islamic Arabia. Their presence weighs heavily on some of the illustrative language of the Quran as well as on the historical timeline used in Al-Sīra al-Nab ... Cite

9780429325816

Book section · March 20, 2020 The rise of Muslim institutions of higher learning in the 21st century represents a major change and challenge to traditional Muslim education. There are two Muslim credentialing centres for Muslim universities, and both are based in Africa – the Federatio ... Link to item Cite

Introduction

Book section · April 24, 2019 Full text Cite

The Rise of the Islamic State and How to Reverse it

Book section · February 11, 2016 This volume is composed of sixty-six chapters divided into sections on a) radical Islamist OPFORs (opposition forces) and context and b) U.S.-allied policy and counter radical Islamist strategies. ... Cite

Introduction: Africa's Muslim institutions of higher learning: moving forward

Book section · January 26, 2016 Muslim Institutions of Higher Education in Postcolonial Africa examines the colonial discriminatory practices against Muslim education through control and dismissal and discusses the education reform movement of the post-colonial experience ... ... Link to item Cite