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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  

Featured Works

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

The Arabic Classroom Context, Text and Learners

Book · April 18, 2019 Featured Publication Collected here is recent scholarly work, and also critical writing from Arabic instructors, Arabists and language experts, to examine the status of the teaching and learning of Arabic in the modern classroom. ... Cite

Remembering the Arab Spring: Perspectives and Reflections

Journal article Siyasah Dualiyyah (Journal of International Politics) · February 2015 Featured Publication Cite

Beyond Duality, for Plurality

Journal article The Immanent Frame · July 2014 Featured Publication Invited Response ... Cite

Egypt and the Elusiveness of Shar’iyyah

Journal article The Immanent Frame · April 23, 2014 Featured Publication Invited Contribution ... Cite

Religion and Religious Teachings in Al-Qaeda

Journal article · 2014 Featured Publication Cite

Challenging authority in cyberspace: Evaluating Al Jazeera Arabic writers

Journal article Journal of Religion and Popular Culture · January 1, 2013 Featured Publication The Arab Spring has been widely branded as a social media revolution. Evidence has shown that many Arab citizens consider Al Jazeera one of the most popular and credible Arab news networks, making it important to explore the manner and the extent to which ... Full text Cite

Egypt at the Crossroads

Journal article The Immanent Frame · July 16, 2012 Featured Publication Cite

Democracy is at Work in Egypt

Journal article · May 2012 Featured Publication Cite

Contextualizing "Muridiyyah" within the American muslim community: Perspectives on the past, present and future

Journal article African Journal of Political Science and International Relations · June 2010 Featured Publication This paper examines the presence of the West African Sufi order, known as the Muridiyyah, within the broader context of muslims in America. The advent of the Murids in the American muslim community has not been the object of much research. This paper draws ... Cite

The Arabic Classroom: Context, Text and Students (In Progress)

Book Featured Publication Edited volume of conference papers. ... Cite