Africa

United States of America

Alwaleed Professor of Contemporary Islamic Religion and Society

Harvard Divinity School, Harvard University

ousmane_kane@harvard.edu

Harvard Divinity School
Harvard University
Andover 304
45 Francis Avenue
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
USA

Senegal ; Nigeria ; South Africa ; Kenya

Comparative studies in Islamic education in Africa (Kenya, Nigeria,
Senegal, South Africa) ; African Muslim immigrants in America; Political Islam ;
comparative politics ; comparative Muslim societies ; international migration ;
intellectual history of Sub-Saharan Africa ; Northern Nigeria.

September 2003 to July 2004, Research Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg
zu Berlin (Institute for Advanced Study) in Berlin, Germany.

2000-2008 Co-editor (with Imtiaz Ahmed) of Identity, culture and politics:
an Afro-Asian dialogue. A publication of CODESRIA (Dakar, Senegal),
Centre for Alternatives (Dhaka, Bangladesh), and International Centre for
Ethnic Studies (Colombo, Sri Lanka).

July 2012 to present, Alwaleed Professor of Contemporary Islamic Religion and Society, Harvard Divinity School

August 2002 to May 2012, Associate Professor, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University

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

Islam ; immigration ; globalization ; African politics ; African development ; West Africa