Mbaye Lo
Biographic Data
| ID | 5903712 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mbaye Lo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mbaye |
| FAMILY NAME | Lo |
| SIGNATURE | LO M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Duke University/ University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The 1850’s Photographic Portrait of Omar Ibn Said
Muslim Institutions of Higher Education in Postcolonial Africa
Challenging Authority in Cyberspace
The Arab Spring has been widely branded as a social media revolution. Evidence has shown that many Arab citizens consider Al Jazeera one of the most popular and credible Arab news networks, making it important to explore the manner and the extent to which this media network may have impacted the Revolution. One way to do so is by examining the meaning, configuration, and providers of the Al Jazeera network’s news content. This exploration seems t…
Muslim Marriage Goes Online
This paper analytically explores the recent rise of Internet use among American Muslims who are looking for marriage. Because American Muslims are a heterogeneous community consisting of individuals who, while confessing to a single article of faith, come from a plethora of ethnic and cultural backgrounds, finding a suitable mate within one’s religious, cultural and emotional sphere has become a complex and, at times, problematic journey. As a re…
Re-conceptualizing Civil Society
This article challenges the civil society argument based on its failure to correctly and appropriately conceptualize Africa's societal experiences. To this end, the article explores Senegal as a case study to show how the idiosyncrasy of societal development has constructed and produced different types of associational life that is not grasped within the liberal preconditions of civil society. Senegal was selected to make a deductive analysis. If…
Seeking the Roots of Terrorism
This article analyzes the associational relationship between Islam and terrorism as embedded in the current popular culture. Two questions are examined: (a) whether from a historical and political perspective current organizations that are terror threats and Bin Laden are natural outgrowths of the Islamic tradition; (b) whether the Muslim popular tradition has historically interpreted some Qur’anic terms such as Jihad and Kuffar ”allegedly infide…
Muslim Marriage Goes Online
This paper analytically explores the recent rise of Internet use among American Muslims who are looking for marriage. Because American Muslims are a heterogeneous community consisting of individuals who, while confessing to a single article of faith, come from a plethora of ethnic and cultural backgrounds, finding a suitable mate within one’s religious, cultural and emotional sphere has become a complex and, at times, problematic journey. As a re…
Challenging Authority in Cyberspace
The Arab Spring has been widely branded as a social media revolution. Evidence has shown that many Arab citizens consider Al Jazeera one of the most popular and credible Arab news networks, making it important to explore the manner and the extent to which this media network may have impacted the Revolution. One way to do so is by examining the meaning, configuration, and providers of the Al Jazeera network’s news content. This exploration seems t…
Seeking the Roots of Terrorism
This article analyzes the associational relationship between Islam and terrorism as embedded in the current popular culture. Two questions are examined: (a) whether from a historical and political perspective current organizations that are terror threats and Bin Laden are natural outgrowths of the Islamic tradition; (b) whether the Muslim popular tradition has historically interpreted some Qur’anic terms such as Jihad and Kuffar ”allegedly infide…
Re-conceptualizing Civil Society
This article challenges the civil society argument based on its failure to correctly and appropriately conceptualize Africa's societal experiences. To this end, the article explores Senegal as a case study to show how the idiosyncrasy of societal development has constructed and produced different types of associational life that is not grasped within the liberal preconditions of civil society. Senegal was selected to make a deductive analysis. If…
Muslim Marriage Goes Online
This paper analytically explores the recent rise of Internet use among American Muslims who are looking for marriage. Because American Muslims are a heterogeneous community consisting of individuals who, while confessing to a single article of faith, come from a plethora of ethnic and cultural backgrounds, finding a suitable mate within one’s religious, cultural and emotional sphere has become a complex and, at times, problematic journey. As a re…
Challenging Authority in Cyberspace
The Arab Spring has been widely branded as a social media revolution. Evidence has shown that many Arab citizens consider Al Jazeera one of the most popular and credible Arab news networks, making it important to explore the manner and the extent to which this media network may have impacted the Revolution. One way to do so is by examining the meaning, configuration, and providers of the Al Jazeera network’s news content. This exploration seems t…
Muslim Institutions of Higher Education in Postcolonial Africa
The 1850’s Photographic Portrait of Omar Ibn Said
Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · History (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Theology (3 works) · African cultural and philosophical studies (2 works) · Art (2 works)