Ngom Co-Edits Special Volume of Islamic Africa
Fallou Ngom, Director of the African Studies Center at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies and Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Boston University, recently co-edited a special volume of Islamic Africa journal with Mustapha Kurfi, a Boston University PhD student in Sociology and African Studies.
The volume, titled “Ajamization of Islam in Africa,” was published by Brill (Volume 8, Issue 1 and 2, pages 1-216) and consists of an introduction and seven peer-reviewed articles that examine the multiple adaptations of Islamic traditions in West and East Africa.
Incorporating the journal Sudanic Africa, Islamic Africa publishes original research concerning Islam in Africa from the social sciences and the humanities, as well as primary source material and commentary essays related to Islamic Studies in Africa. The journal’s geographic scope includes the entire African continent and adjacent islands. Islamic Africa encourages intellectual excellence and seeks to promote scholarly interaction between Africa-based scholars and those located institutionally outside the continent.
You can read more about the special volume here.
Dr. Fallou Ngom’s current research interests include the interactions between African languages and non-African languages, the Africanization of Islam, and Ajami literatures—records of West African languages written in Arabic script. He hopes to help train the first generation of American scholars to have direct access into the wealth of knowledge still buried in West African Ajami literatures, and the historical, cultural, and religious heritage that has found expression in this manner.