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Academic degrees
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2000 |
Maître de Conférences Qualifié (Assistant professor), section 15 (Department of Oriental studies) |
1996 |
Doctorate at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris; section ‘History and civilisations’. |
1991 |
D.E.A. (Diplôme d’études approfondies) at the Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris III) in the Department for Oriental languages, civilisation and societies. |
1989 |
M.A. in Arabic Studies at the Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris III), |
1988 |
B.A. in Modern Standard Arabic, INALCO Paris |
Areas of Specialization and Interest 
Islam and Politics, Sufism, Pan-islamism, Islam and Modernity in Sub Saharan Africa; Relation between Sub Saharan Africa and the Arabic World especially Saudi Arabia and North Africa, Comparison between Islam and Christianity and between Islam and local Beliefs in Africa; Islamism, Islamic Education, teaching Arabic language and Arabic literature; The Enslavement of black Africans in Asia and in the Arab world; black African Diaspora in the Arab and Asian countries
Current research projects
From West Africa to Arabia. West African ulama in Mekka and Medina (19th and 20th centuries)
In this project, I intend to write on the career of some ulama from West Africa (Mali, Mauritania, Northern-Nigeria) who fled the European colonization of their countries to seek refuge in Mecca and Medina and later became well known ulama in Saudi Arabia. The project will end in two years with a book to be entitled: “West African ulama in Mekka and Medina (19th and 20th centuries)”
Project in preparation
The Social history of Bela Farangi (A district of former slaves in Timbuctu/Mali)
Courses Taught
- Social history of Islam in East Africa (Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
- Between Arabia and Africa: The Horn of Africa (Sudan, Somalia, Ethiopia and Eritrea): I. Nationalism and Islamism, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
- Islam in East Africa: Between political participation and da’wa, Freie Universität Berlin
- First encounters between Christian missionaries and the indigenous population of East Africa in the 19th century, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin-Jihad, Mahdismus und hajj in Westafrika und Sudan (19.–20. Jh. ), Humbolt-Universität zu Berlin
-Seminar on the Theme of “Social History of Islam in East Africa”
Current Position
Since 2001 |
Researcher at the Centre for Modern Oriental Studies |
Earlier Profession / Positions held
1993–1995 |
Lecturer for Arabic at L’Essouriau Secondary school in Bures/Yvette and at Les Amont Secondary school in Les Ulis. Granted by the Ministère de la coopération française |
1991–1992 |
Student assistant in the periodical section of the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris |
1987 |
Translator Arabic-French for the Handisports (Paralympics) in Paris. |
Research activities and fellowships in Germany
2007-2012 |
Researcher at the Centre for Modern Oriental Studies, research project: From West Africa to Arabia. West African ulama in Mekka and Medina (19th and 20th centuries). |
2003–2006 |
Researcher at the Centre for Modern Oriental Studies, research project: „The Islamic mission in the Multi-Religious Context of East Africa”, research project financed by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) |
2001–2003 |
Researcher at the Centre for Modern Oriental Studies, Berlin. Research project: "Holy places, popular memories and translocal practise in the southern Swahili zone", research project financed by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) |
2000 |
of the Working Group Modernity and Islam (Berlin) for the completion of my book Ngoma et Mission Islamique aux Comores et en Afrique orientale |
1997–1999 |
Post-doctoral fellowship at the Wissenschaftskolleg, Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin, Working Group Modernity and Islam, research project: Popular Islam on the Comoros, office at the Centre for Modern Oriental Studies, Berlin. |
Language skills
Comorian (native), French, Arabic, Kiswahili, Engish, German (all fluent).
Memberships
Since 2010 |
Advisory Board Member of Islamic Africa |
Reviewer of the Peer-reviewed Journals
Since 2010 |
Islamic Africa |
Since2008 |
Africa Today |
Since 2008 |
Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée (REMMM)
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Since 2006 |
Archives des Sciences Sociales des Religions |
Referees
-Marc Gaborieau, Professor of Anthropology, EHESS (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales), Paris, mgb@ehess.fr
-Stefan Reichmuth, Professor of Islamic Studies Bochum University, Germany, stefan.reichmuth@ruhr-uni-bochum.de
-Abdallah CHEIKH-MOUSSA, Professor of Classical Arabic literature and Arabic Societies of the Middle Age, Université Paris-Sorbonne, Abdallah.Cheikh-Moussa@paris-sorbonne.fr
-Michael Lambek, FRSC, Professor of Antropology and Canada Research Chair University of Toronto at Scarborough-Canada, lambek@utsc.utoronto.ca
Refereed books
Monographs
- Jawâbu-l-Ifrîqî/ The Response of the African. West African ´ulamâ´ in Mecca and Medina (19th–20th centuries). (Forthcoming).
- Les Conversions à l’Islam fondamentaliste en Afrique au sud du Sahara. Le cas de la Tanzanie et du Kenya, Paris, L’Harmattan, 2008, 456 p.
- Ngoma et Mission islamique (Da'wa) aux Comores et en Afrique orientale. Une approche anthropologique, Paris, L'Harmattan, 2002, 260 p.
- Islam et Politique aux Comores, Paris, L'Harmattan, 1999, 272 p.
Edited volumes
- Performing Islamic Revival in Africa (ed.), special Issue of Africa Today, vol. 54, number 4, 2008.
- Réveils du soufisme en Afrique et en Asie. Translocalité, prosélytisme et réforme: Archives de sciences Sociales des Religions, (ed.), July–Sept. 2006, 51ème année, n° 135, 9–15.
Others publications
Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals
-Hijra, Colonization and Scholarship in West Africa in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. (Forthcoming).
-For the Saudi's Kingdom or for the Umma? Encounters between ´ulamâ´ from sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and the Middle East in the Dâr al-Hadîth in Medina (early 20th century). (Forthcoming article).
- Muslim Universities in East Africa between claims of cultural identity and political challenges. (Forthcoming).
-Networks of islamic NGOs in sub-Saharan Africa: Bilal Muslim Mission, African Muslim Agency (Direct Aid), and al-Haramayn, in: Journal of Eastern African Studies, 1753–1063, vol. 3, Issue 3, 2009, 426–437.
-Introduction to Special Issue: Performing Islamic Revival in Africa, in: Africa Today, vol. 54, number 4, 2008, VII–XIII.
-The Wahubiri wa Kislamu (Preachers of Islam) in East Africa, in: Chanfi Ahmed (ed.) Performing Islamic Revival in Africa, Special Issue Africa Today, vol. 54, number 4, 2008, 3–18.
-Introduction: le renouveau de l’Islam soufi, in: Réveils du soufisme en Afrique et en Asie. Translocalité, prosélytisme et réforme: Archives de sciences Sociales des Religions, July–Sept. 2006, 51ème année, n° 135, 9–15.
-(with Achim von Oppe): „Saba Ishirini: A Commemoration Ceremony as the Performance of Translocality around the South Swahili Coast“, in: Yearbook of The Sociology of Islam : On Archaelogy of Sainthood and Local Spirituality in Islam. Past and Present Crossroads of Events and Ideas, 5, 2004, 89–103.
-Rites de mort aux Comores et chez les swahili. Entre islam savant et islam local, in: Journal des Africanistes, 72, (2), 2002: 187–201.
-Islamic Mission in Sub-Saharan Africa. The perspectives of some 'Ulama associated with al-Azhar University (1960-1970), in: Die Welt des Islams, Band 41, 3, 2001, 348–378.
-La passion pour le Prophète aux Comores et en Afrique de l'Est, ou l'épopée du Maulid al-Barzandji, in Islam et Sociétés au Sud du Sahara, n° 13, 1999, 65–89.
-Entre Da'wa et Diplomatie. Al-Azhar et l'Afrique au Sud du Sahara d'après la revue Madjallat al-Azhar dans les années 1960 et 1970, in: Islam et Sociétés au Sud du Sahara, n° 14-15 / 2000-2001, 57–80.
-Les étudiants de l'Archipel des Comores à l'Université islamique de Médine (Arabie Saoudite), in: La transmission du savoir dans le monde musulman périphérique, n° 16, mai, 1996, EHESS, 4–12.
Articles in Collective Volumes
-Networks of the Shadhiliyya Yashrutiyya Sufi Order in East Africa, in: R. Loimeier, R. Seesemann (eds.), The Global Worlds of the Swahili. Interfaces of Islam, Identity and Space in 19th and 20th-Century East Africa, Berlin, Lit Verlag, 2006, 317–342.
-Un pèlerinage maritime des disciples de la Shâdhiliyya en Tanzanie, in: E. Geoffroy (sous la direction), Une voie soufie dans le monde: la Shâdhiliyya, Paris, Maisonneuve et Larose, 2006, 399–413.
-(with Achim v. Oppen): Sufi-Heiligtümer in Ostafrika als Schauplätze translokaler Erinnerung, in: A. C. Messner und K. Hieschler (Hg.), Heilige Orte in Asien und Afrika. Räume göttlicher Macht und menschlicher Verehrung, Hamburg, EB-Verlag, 2006, 99–218.
-Afar and Issa (Isa or þIse) (Forthcoming in Encyclopedia of Islam, Leiden, Brill).
-Comores, in: M. Eid, Al. Elgibali, K. Versteegh, M. Woidich and A. Zaborski (eds.), ncyclopedia of Arabic Language Literature and Linguistics, 448–451, Leiden, Brill, 2005
-Tariqa, Etat et enseignement islamique aux Comores. Réseaux d'hier et d'aujourd'hui, in: Gomez-Perez, M. (sous la dir. de), L'islam politique au sud du Sahara. Identités, discours et enjeux, Paris, Karthala, 2005, 49–68.
-(with Achim von Oppen): Die Praxis der Erinnerung in einer ostafrikanischen Sufi-Bruderschaft, in: W. Speitkamp (Hg.), Kommunikationsräume-Erinnerungsräume. Beiträge zur transkulturellen Begegnung in Afrika, München, Martin Meidenbauer, 2005, 175–192.
-Das Mombasa Institute of Muslim Education als Bildungseinrichtung und Erinnerungsort der waMwambao, in W. Speitkamp (Hg.), Erinnerungsräume und Wissenstransfer. Beitrag zur afrikanischen Geschichte, Göttingen, V and R unipress, 2008, 95-103.
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