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Selected publications:

2016  Beyond Timbuktu: an intellectual history of Muslim West Africa. 
Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

2012   "'L' islamisme' d'hier et d'aujourd'hui: Quelques enseignements de l'Afrique de l'Ouest," 
Cahiers d'études africaines, Issue 206-07 (2012): 545-574.

2011   The homeland is the arena: religion, transnationalism and the 
integration of Senegalese immigrants in America.  Oxford; New York: 
Oxford University Press.

2009   "Les marabouts sénégalais et leur clientle aux 
Etats-Unis d'Amérique: une économie spirituelle 
transnationale?" Afrique contemporaine. 231, 3: 209-28.

2008  "Islamism, what is new, what is not?: lessons from West Africa," 
African journal of international affairs 11, 2 (2008): 157-87.

2008   "The Shifts in Hizbullah's Ideology: Religious Ideology, Political 
Ideology and Political Program,"  Arab Studies Quarterly Spring 30(2) 68.

2007   "Moderate revivalists," Harvard international review. vol. 29, no. 2
(Summer 2007): 64-67.

2003   "Senegambia I: the Niassene tradition" (with John Hunwick, Rüdiger 
Seeesemann) ; "Senegambia II: other Tijani writers" (with John Hunwick) ; 
"Senegambia III: writers of the Murid tariqa" (with John Hunwick) ; and, "Other 
writings of the Senegambian region" (with John Hunwick), in John Hunwick (comp.)
Arabic literature of Africa, vol. IV: writings of western Sudanic Africa.  
Leiden, The Netherlands, E.J. Brill, 2003.

2003   Intellectuels non-europhones.  Dakar, Senegal : Conseil
pour le développement de la recherche en sciences sociales (CODESRIA).
La version électronique est disponible à l'adresse suivante: 
http://www.codesria.org/Links/Publications/monographs/ousmane_kane.pdf

2002   Muslim modernity in postcolonial Nigeria : a study of the Society 
for the Removal of Innovation and Reinstatement of Tradition.  Leiden, The Netherlands:
E.J. Brill, 2002.

2002   "Réflexions sur les émeutes interconfessionnelles du 
nord du Nigéria," Politique étrangère, 3, 2002, 749-64.

2000   "Muhammad Niasse (1881-1956) et sa réplique contre le 
pamphlet anti-tijani de Ibn Mayaba," in Jean-Louis Triaud et David 
Robinson (eds.) La Tijaniyya: une confrérie musulmane à 
la conquête de l'Afrique.  Paris: Karthala, 2000.  pp. 219-36

"Religion et politique dans les fiefs confrériques du 
Sénégal," in GERCOP: analyse des élections 
législatives de mai 1998 au Sénégal, Saint-Louis.
Saint-Louis, Sénégal: Presses universitaires de Saint-Louis.

1999   "La polémique contre le soufisme et les ordres soufis en 
Afrique de l'Ouest post-coloniale," in Frederick de Jong & Bernd Radtk 
(eds.) Islamic mysticism contested: thirteen centuries of controversies 
and polemics.  Leiden: E.J. Brill.  pp. 324-40.

"La citoyenneté, la société et l'état: le modèle sénégalais," 
Revue sénégalaise de sociologie, 2-3, 1998-1999: 231-40.

1998    Islam et islamisme au sud du Sahara. Sous la direction de
Ousmane Kane et Jean-Louis Triaud.  Paris: Karthala :  Maison des sciences
de l'homme.

With Leonardo A. Villalon. "Senegal: the crisis of democracy and 
the emergence of an Islamic opposition."  In The African state at a 
critical juncture: between disintegration and reconfiguration. Ed. by 
Leonardo A. Villalon, Phillip A. Huxtable.  Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner 
Publishers.

1997   "Un pluralisme en quête de démocratie," in François Constantin & Christian
Coulon (eds.), Religion et transition démocratique en Afrique.  Paris: Karthala. 
pp. 51-79.

"Shaikh al-Islam al-Hajj Ibrahim Niasse," in David Robinson and 
Jean-Louis Triaud (eds.)  Le temps des marabouts: itinéraires et 
stratégies islamiques en Afrique occidentale française c. 
1880-1960.  Paris: Karthala.  pp. 299-316.

"Muslim missionaries and African states," in Susan Hoeber Rudolph 
and James Piscatori (eds.) Transnational religion and fading 
states.  Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press.  pp. 47-62.

1994   "Senegal," in G.J. Roper (ed.) World survey of Islamic 
manuscripts, Volume 3.  Leiden: E.J. Brill.  pp. 51-63

"Zawiyah," in John Esposito (ed.) The Oxford encyclopedia of the 
modern Islamic world, Volume 4.  New York: Oxford University Press.
pp. 370-73.

"Izala: the rise of Muslim reformism in Nigeria," in Martin Marty 
and Scott Appelby (eds.) Accounting for fundamentalisms: the dynamic 
character of movements.  Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
pp. 490-512.

1990   "Les mouvements religieux et le champ politique au Nigéria 
septentrional: le cas du réformisme musulman à Kano,"
Islam et sociétés au sud du Sahara. 4 (1990): 7-24.

1989   "La confrérie Tijaniyya ibrahimiyya de Kano et ses liens 
avec la zawiya-mère de Kaolack," Islam et sociétés 
au sud du Sahara. 3 (1989): 27-40.

Selected review articles:

2009  Review article: "Autobiography and Decolonization: Modernity, 
Masculinity, and the Nation-State," by Philip Holden.  Biography Spring 
32(2) 350-52.

2006  Review article: "Darfur: The Ambiguous Genocide," by Gerard Prunier. 
Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 2005." Political science 
quarterly, vol. 121, no. 2 (Summer 2006): 322-23.

2004  Review article: "Political talk, not cultural talk: Mamdani's take 
on the roots of global terror," CODESRIA bulletin, vol. 2004, 
nos. 3 & 4 (2004): 3-5.
See: http://www.codesria.org/Links/Publications/contents_bulletin/bulletin_3_2004.htm

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