Ousmane Kane
Biographic Data
| ID | 137488 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ousmane Kane |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ousmane |
| FAMILY NAME | Kane |
| SIGNATURE | KANE O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 53 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Nobili Mauro. — Sultan, Caliph, and the Renewer of the Faith. Aḥmad Lobbo, the Tarikh al-Fattāsh, and the Islamic State in Africa
Among the most important sources for West African precolonial political history, three seventeenth-century Timbuktu chronicles figure prominently: the Tarīkh al-Sūdān, the Tarikh al-Fattāsh and the Tadhkirat al-Nisyān. They were discovered after the conquest of the ‘Umarian State and translated from Arabic to French at the beginning of 20th century. The author of Tadhkirat al-Nisyān is not known, and the attribution of Tarīkh al-Sūdān to Abderrah…
Abubakar Dauda. — “They love us because we give them Zakāt.” The Distribution of Wealth and the Making of Social Relations in Northern Nigeria
This book is based on a dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Ph.D at the Graduate School “Muslim Cultures and Societies” of the Freie Universität of Berlin. It is published as the twenty-third volume of the “Islam in Africa” series inititated by E. J. Brill in 2003. It is a good addition to this series, which had already made a considerable contribution to the understanding of Islam and Muslim societies in Afr…
From a Neglected to a Crowded Field-The Academic Study of Islam in Sub-Saharan Africa
An estimated five hundred million Muslims-close to a third of the global Muslim population and half of the African population-live on the African continent
Islamic Scholarship in Africa
M ichael A. G omez . African Dominion
The story of the rise and fall of the Ghana, Mali, and Songhay Empires is the most commonly taught part of African history, featured as a chapter in the world history curriculum of most American high schools. The grand narrative of West Africa’s golden age is conveyed in a formulaic fashion that has remained static for decades. This is partly because serious research has been lacking since the 1970s when landmark studies were produced by the like…
Muslim Missionaries and African States
This chapter focuses on contemporary turuq in West Africa. It argues that these networks, which contributed a great deal to the spread of Islam in black Africa, make tension less likely, while their absence actually makes it more likely. The chapter discusses the context in which the turuq emerged as sociopolitical communities in West Africa. It focuses on the Niassene Tijaniyya tariqa. The chapter describes the modus operandi of this tariqa in W…
Loimeier, Roman. — Muslim Societies in Africa. A Historical Anthropology
For most of the twentieth century, the study of Islam in Africa was informed by the “area studies” framework, and thus tended to separate North Africa from Sub-Saharan Africa. At the turn of the twenty-first century, students of African Islam challenged the area studies paradigm and developed comprehensive approaches to the study of Islam in Africa by highlighting the interconnections between the different regions of Africa and between Africa and…
Living Knowledge in West African Islam. The Sufi Community of Ibrahim Niasse, written by Zachary Valentine Wright
Beyond Timbuktu
Timbuktu is famous as a center of learning from Islam’s Golden Age. Yet it was one among many scholarly centers to exist in precolonial West Africa. Ousmane Kane charts the rise of Muslim learning in West Africa from the beginning of Islam to the present day and corrects lingering misconceptions about Africa’s Muslim heritage and its influence.
Arabic Sources and the Search for a New Historiography in Ibadan in the 1960s
According to the late Ali Mazrui, modern Africa is the product of a triple civilizational legacy: African, Arabo-Islamic, and Western (Mazrui 1986). Each civilization left Africa with bodies of knowledge rooted in particular epistemologies and transmitted in written and/or oral form. In the first half of the twentieth century, what became known as the colonial library (Mudimbe 1988: x) had provided the sources and conceptual apparatus for studyin…
Making and Remaking Mosques in Senegal
Cantone, Cleo. — Making and Remaking Mosques in Senegal. Leiden-Boston, Brill, 2011, 408 p., bibl., ill. According to a 2010 Pew Charitable Trust Survey, 98% of the Senegalese believed that religion is very important in their life. This makes Senegal the most religious country in the planet. 95% of the twelve million Senegalese are Muslims and Christians constitute about 5% of its population. The spread of Islam lasted over a millennium in West A…
Etat et Corruption en Afrique. Une anthropologie comparative des relations entre fonctionnaires et usagers (Bénin, Niger, Sénégal)
sous la direction de G. Blundo et J.P. Olivier de Sardan, Paris, Karthala, 2007, 374 pp. La litterature politologique sur l'Etat africain postcolonial abonde de qualificatifs faisant reference au c
L'« islamisme » d'hier et d'aujourd'hui
Au lendemain de la révolution islamique iranienne de 1979, une abondante littérature a été produite en Occident sur l’islamisme en réponse à la demande des décideurs politiques. Jusque-là l’apanage de quelques orientalistes, l’étude de l’islam est devenue un champ de recherches multidisciplinaire impliquant des chercheurs dans toutes les branches des sciences humaines et sociales. Cet article, qui est axé sur l’Afrique de l’Ouest, questionne de n…
Immigration or Death
This chapter discusses the development consequences of Senegalese emigration in the homeland, including in the religious strongholds of Senegalese Sufi groups. It shows that migrating Senegalese of modest origins—called modou-modous—have acquired respectability as the result of the monies they have made in the West. Their success has contributed to an intensification of the desire among Senegalese in Senegal to migrate, which has, in recent years…
The Homeland Is the Arena
This book addresses an historically neglected aspect of international migration, analyzing the role played by transnational religion in the adaptation of Senegalese immigrants in America in the late twentieth century
Autobiography and Decolonization
Les marabouts sénégalais et leur clientèle aux États-Unis
Une économie spirituelle mobilisant du temps, des ressources et une énergie considérables est en train de prospérer au sein de la communauté musulmane sénégalaise des États-Unis. C’est le mode opératoire de cette économie spirituelle transnationale que cet article s’efforce de décrire, en s’attachant plus particulièrement aux activités des marabouts venus pour un séjour temporaire aux États-Unis. L’auteur les classe en trois catégories : la premi…
Darfur
Journal Article Darfur: The Ambiguous Genocide by Gerard Prunier Get access Darfur: The Ambiguous Genocide by Gerard Prunier. Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 2005. 240 pp. $24.00. Ousmane Kane Ousmane Kane Columbia University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 121, Issue 2, Summer 2006, Pages 322–323, https://doi.org/10.1002/j.1538-165X.2006.tb01490.x Published: 25 Ma…
Muslim Modernity in Postcolonial Nigeria
This book deals with Muslim modernity in a country with the largest single Muslim population in Sub-Saharan Africa. It provides much needed new grounds for comparative study. Until now, virtually all socio-anthropological works about any specific African country are either authored by nationals of that country or by Western scholars. This book is an exception because its author is an Islamicist and a social scientist from Senegal trained in the F…
Islam et islamismes au sud du Sahara
Islam et islamismes au sud du Sahara
Islam et islamismes au sud du Sahara
Islamic Society in Practice
Written in the wake of the Gulf War, this book introduces the West to everyday Arab-Islamic culture and society, humanising the region and its people. It ventures behind the headlines to show how Islam is lived and practiced in daily life in the Sudan, Egypt and Tunisia. Society in Practice is both scholarly and personal, intended for classroom use and for a general audience. It examines Islamic society on a grassroots level, using the basic anth…
Historical Dictionary of Senegal
Beyond Timbuktu
Timbuktu is famous as a center of learning from Islam’s Golden Age. Yet it was one among many scholarly centers to exist in precolonial West Africa. Ousmane Kane charts the rise of Muslim learning in West Africa from the beginning of Islam to the present day and corrects lingering misconceptions about Africa’s Muslim heritage and its influence.
Les marabouts sénégalais et leur clientèle aux États-Unis
Une économie spirituelle mobilisant du temps, des ressources et une énergie considérables est en train de prospérer au sein de la communauté musulmane sénégalaise des États-Unis. C’est le mode opératoire de cette économie spirituelle transnationale que cet article s’efforce de décrire, en s’attachant plus particulièrement aux activités des marabouts venus pour un séjour temporaire aux États-Unis. L’auteur les classe en trois catégories : la premi…
M ichael A. G omez . African Dominion
The story of the rise and fall of the Ghana, Mali, and Songhay Empires is the most commonly taught part of African history, featured as a chapter in the world history curriculum of most American high schools. The grand narrative of West Africa’s golden age is conveyed in a formulaic fashion that has remained static for decades. This is partly because serious research has been lacking since the 1970s when landmark studies were produced by the like…
L'« islamisme » d'hier et d'aujourd'hui
Au lendemain de la révolution islamique iranienne de 1979, une abondante littérature a été produite en Occident sur l’islamisme en réponse à la demande des décideurs politiques. Jusque-là l’apanage de quelques orientalistes, l’étude de l’islam est devenue un champ de recherches multidisciplinaire impliquant des chercheurs dans toutes les branches des sciences humaines et sociales. Cet article, qui est axé sur l’Afrique de l’Ouest, questionne de n…
Arabic Sources and the Search for a New Historiography in Ibadan in the 1960s
According to the late Ali Mazrui, modern Africa is the product of a triple civilizational legacy: African, Arabo-Islamic, and Western (Mazrui 1986). Each civilization left Africa with bodies of knowledge rooted in particular epistemologies and transmitted in written and/or oral form. In the first half of the twentieth century, what became known as the colonial library (Mudimbe 1988: x) had provided the sources and conceptual apparatus for studyin…
Darfur
Journal Article Darfur: The Ambiguous Genocide by Gerard Prunier Get access Darfur: The Ambiguous Genocide by Gerard Prunier. Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 2005. 240 pp. $24.00. Ousmane Kane Ousmane Kane Columbia University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 121, Issue 2, Summer 2006, Pages 322–323, https://doi.org/10.1002/j.1538-165X.2006.tb01490.x Published: 25 Ma…
Historical Dictionary of Senegal
Islamic Society in Practice
Written in the wake of the Gulf War, this book introduces the West to everyday Arab-Islamic culture and society, humanising the region and its people. It ventures behind the headlines to show how Islam is lived and practiced in daily life in the Sudan, Egypt and Tunisia. Society in Practice is both scholarly and personal, intended for classroom use and for a general audience. It examines Islamic society on a grassroots level, using the basic anth…
Islam et islamismes au sud du Sahara
Islam et islamismes au sud du Sahara
Islam et islamismes au sud du Sahara
Muslim Modernity in Postcolonial Nigeria
This book deals with Muslim modernity in a country with the largest single Muslim population in Sub-Saharan Africa. It provides much needed new grounds for comparative study. Until now, virtually all socio-anthropological works about any specific African country are either authored by nationals of that country or by Western scholars. This book is an exception because its author is an Islamicist and a social scientist from Senegal trained in the F…
Darfur
Journal Article Darfur: The Ambiguous Genocide by Gerard Prunier Get access Darfur: The Ambiguous Genocide by Gerard Prunier. Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 2005. 240 pp. $24.00. Ousmane Kane Ousmane Kane Columbia University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 121, Issue 2, Summer 2006, Pages 322–323, https://doi.org/10.1002/j.1538-165X.2006.tb01490.x Published: 25 Ma…
Autobiography and Decolonization
Les marabouts sénégalais et leur clientèle aux États-Unis
Une économie spirituelle mobilisant du temps, des ressources et une énergie considérables est en train de prospérer au sein de la communauté musulmane sénégalaise des États-Unis. C’est le mode opératoire de cette économie spirituelle transnationale que cet article s’efforce de décrire, en s’attachant plus particulièrement aux activités des marabouts venus pour un séjour temporaire aux États-Unis. L’auteur les classe en trois catégories : la premi…
Immigration or Death
This chapter discusses the development consequences of Senegalese emigration in the homeland, including in the religious strongholds of Senegalese Sufi groups. It shows that migrating Senegalese of modest origins—called modou-modous—have acquired respectability as the result of the monies they have made in the West. Their success has contributed to an intensification of the desire among Senegalese in Senegal to migrate, which has, in recent years…
The Homeland Is the Arena
This book addresses an historically neglected aspect of international migration, analyzing the role played by transnational religion in the adaptation of Senegalese immigrants in America in the late twentieth century
Etat et Corruption en Afrique. Une anthropologie comparative des relations entre fonctionnaires et usagers (Bénin, Niger, Sénégal)
sous la direction de G. Blundo et J.P. Olivier de Sardan, Paris, Karthala, 2007, 374 pp. La litterature politologique sur l'Etat africain postcolonial abonde de qualificatifs faisant reference au c
L'« islamisme » d'hier et d'aujourd'hui
Au lendemain de la révolution islamique iranienne de 1979, une abondante littérature a été produite en Occident sur l’islamisme en réponse à la demande des décideurs politiques. Jusque-là l’apanage de quelques orientalistes, l’étude de l’islam est devenue un champ de recherches multidisciplinaire impliquant des chercheurs dans toutes les branches des sciences humaines et sociales. Cet article, qui est axé sur l’Afrique de l’Ouest, questionne de n…
Making and Remaking Mosques in Senegal
Cantone, Cleo. — Making and Remaking Mosques in Senegal. Leiden-Boston, Brill, 2011, 408 p., bibl., ill. According to a 2010 Pew Charitable Trust Survey, 98% of the Senegalese believed that religion is very important in their life. This makes Senegal the most religious country in the planet. 95% of the twelve million Senegalese are Muslims and Christians constitute about 5% of its population. The spread of Islam lasted over a millennium in West A…
Beyond Timbuktu
Timbuktu is famous as a center of learning from Islam’s Golden Age. Yet it was one among many scholarly centers to exist in precolonial West Africa. Ousmane Kane charts the rise of Muslim learning in West Africa from the beginning of Islam to the present day and corrects lingering misconceptions about Africa’s Muslim heritage and its influence.
Arabic Sources and the Search for a New Historiography in Ibadan in the 1960s
According to the late Ali Mazrui, modern Africa is the product of a triple civilizational legacy: African, Arabo-Islamic, and Western (Mazrui 1986). Each civilization left Africa with bodies of knowledge rooted in particular epistemologies and transmitted in written and/or oral form. In the first half of the twentieth century, what became known as the colonial library (Mudimbe 1988: x) had provided the sources and conceptual apparatus for studyin…
Living Knowledge in West African Islam. The Sufi Community of Ibrahim Niasse, written by Zachary Valentine Wright
Muslim Missionaries and African States
This chapter focuses on contemporary turuq in West Africa. It argues that these networks, which contributed a great deal to the spread of Islam in black Africa, make tension less likely, while their absence actually makes it more likely. The chapter discusses the context in which the turuq emerged as sociopolitical communities in West Africa. It focuses on the Niassene Tijaniyya tariqa. The chapter describes the modus operandi of this tariqa in W…
Loimeier, Roman. — Muslim Societies in Africa. A Historical Anthropology
For most of the twentieth century, the study of Islam in Africa was informed by the “area studies” framework, and thus tended to separate North Africa from Sub-Saharan Africa. At the turn of the twenty-first century, students of African Islam challenged the area studies paradigm and developed comprehensive approaches to the study of Islam in Africa by highlighting the interconnections between the different regions of Africa and between Africa and…
M ichael A. G omez . African Dominion
The story of the rise and fall of the Ghana, Mali, and Songhay Empires is the most commonly taught part of African history, featured as a chapter in the world history curriculum of most American high schools. The grand narrative of West Africa’s golden age is conveyed in a formulaic fashion that has remained static for decades. This is partly because serious research has been lacking since the 1970s when landmark studies were produced by the like…
Islamic Scholarship in Africa
Abubakar Dauda. — “They love us because we give them Zakāt.” The Distribution of Wealth and the Making of Social Relations in Northern Nigeria
This book is based on a dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Ph.D at the Graduate School “Muslim Cultures and Societies” of the Freie Universität of Berlin. It is published as the twenty-third volume of the “Islam in Africa” series inititated by E. J. Brill in 2003. It is a good addition to this series, which had already made a considerable contribution to the understanding of Islam and Muslim societies in Afr…
From a Neglected to a Crowded Field-The Academic Study of Islam in Sub-Saharan Africa
An estimated five hundred million Muslims-close to a third of the global Muslim population and half of the African population-live on the African continent
Nobili Mauro. — Sultan, Caliph, and the Renewer of the Faith. Aḥmad Lobbo, the Tarikh al-Fattāsh, and the Islamic State in Africa
Among the most important sources for West African precolonial political history, three seventeenth-century Timbuktu chronicles figure prominently: the Tarīkh al-Sūdān, the Tarikh al-Fattāsh and the Tadhkirat al-Nisyān. They were discovered after the conquest of the ‘Umarian State and translated from Arabic to French at the beginning of 20th century. The author of Tadhkirat al-Nisyān is not known, and the attribution of Tarīkh al-Sūdān to Abderrah…
Political science (15 works) · African history and culture analysis (11 works) · African Studies and Geopolitics (11 works) · History (11 works) · Geography (10 works) · Islam (10 works) · Archaeology (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Ancient history (7 works)