ANN: Globalizing Mystical Islam: Exploring the Murid diaspora in Europe and North America

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Globalizing Mystical Islam: Exploring the Murid diaspora in Europe and North America

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

515 Malcolm X Boulevard (at West 136 street) New York

Conference Program

May 24, 2008

9:00-9:15 Registration and breakfast Reception

9:15-9:30 Greetings and Opening Remarks by Imam Bachir Lo

Morning Session

9:30-12:30 Multiple Spaces, Multiple Strategies: Murid Disciples in the Global Public Sphere.

Victoria Ebin, Population Reference Bureau in Washington DC

Documenting the Murids’ Arrival in New York City: Perspectives from the 1980s.

Mbaye Lo,Duke University

Contextualizing Muridiyyah within the American Muslim Communities: Perspectives on Past, Present and Future.

Emma Nesper, UCLA

Digital Disciples, Virtual Piety and Mediated Knowledge: An Analysis of the Murid Migration into Cyberspace.

Ellen Foley, Clark University

Hôpital Matlaboul Fawzaini: How the Murid Diaspora is

Remaking the Medical Landscape in Senegal.

Chair: Mamadou Diouf, Columbia University

12:30-2:00 lunch break

Afternoon sessions

2:00-3:30 Emerging Patterns of Globalization: Symbols and Discourses

Eric Ross, Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco

Touba: Global City

Mamaram Seck, University of Florida

The Murid discourse Here and There, Then and Now.

Cheikh A. Babou, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

Globalizing the Muridiyya: Sheikh Abdoulaye Dieye and the Khidmatul Khadim International Sufi School.

Chair: Muhammad Abdu Rahman, Independent Scholar

3:30-5:00 Inserting the Local into the Global: Implications for Gender and Generations

Dinah Hannaford, Emory University

Exploring Alternate Social Networks: the Role of the Dahira in Northern Italy.

Beth Buggenhagen, Indiana University

Global Circuits of Senegalese Muslims and Women’s Search for Religious Merit.

Erin Augis, Ramapo College, New Jersey

Dakar's Sunnite women: The Dialectic of Submission and Defiance in a Globalizing City.

Chair: Sylviane Diouf, Schomburg Center

7:00 Reception for the participants

Convened by Professor Cheikh Anta Babou, co-organized with Murid Islamic Community in America, hosted by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, sponsored by the African Studies Center of the University of Pennsylvania and the Institute of African Studies of Columbia University.

For more information contact the conference organizer Cheikh A. Babou, che...@sas.upenn.edu or the coordinator Sidy A. Ndiaye si...@yahoo.com