Islam, Resistance, and the Black Spiritual Tradition | Dr. Bilal Ware | 10.21.22

Опубликовано: 13 Январь 2023
на канале: ICNYU

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The Black Muslim Lecture Series (BMLS) aims to bring to New York City monthly talks and performances highlighting the voices and perspectives of Black Muslim scholars and artists.

In our second BMLS event of 2022, Dr. Bilal Ware explores the profoundly rich, thousand-year-old Islamic spiritual history of West Africa and the inheritors of that tradition, who, despite being taken captive and enslaved, remained committed to its preservation.

Dr. Bilal Ware is a historian of Africa and Islam. He earned his Ph.D. in history in 2004 from the University of Pennsylvania where he was trained in African History, African-American History, and Islamic Intellectual History. He is currently an associate professor in the Department of History at the University of California-Santa Barbara, and the founder and director of the Initiative for the Study of Race, Religion, and Revolution (ISRRAR). His first book, The Walking Qur’an: Islamic Education, Embodied Knowledge, and History in West Africa, explores the history of a thousand years of Quran schooling in the region. He is the author of multiple articles on Muslim anti-slavery movements in Africa and the Atlantic World, and his most recent book, Jihad of the Pen, explores Sufi thought in West Africa.
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