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Invisible Muslims: Islam in West Africa and America

A Lecture by Rudolph "Butch" Ware, author of The Walking Qur'an

Thursday, March 29, 7:00 pm, 303 International Center

Prof Ware is an Associate Professor, Department of History, at the University of Michigan.  His fields of study include Premodern Africa and Islam in Africa.  He is the author of  The Walking Qur'an, which explores  what it means to be studying in Qur'an schools in West Africa and how these taalibes were an embodiment of Islamic knowledge and propelled into becoming Walking Qur'an.