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An online publication of the AbuSulayman Center for Global Islamic Studies at George Mason University

Islam in Africa

History Speaks EP 3 | Self and Society in Sufism | Saadia Yacoob with Oludamini Ogunnaike and Sara Abdel-Latif

June 2, 2021October 14, 2025

In this episode of History Speaks, Saadia Yacoob speaks with Oludamini Ogunnaike and Sara Abdel-Latif about the self and society in Sufi thought from its early formative period in Nishapur to the early modern and…

History Speaks EP 2 | Local Traditions of Islamic Law | Saadia Yacoob with Matthew Steele and Mahmood Kooria

April 20, 2021October 14, 2025

In this episode of History Speaks, Saadia Yacoob speaks with Matthew Steele and Mahmood Kooria about the Islamic legal traditions in Africa, South and Southeast Asia.  They discuss the life of legal texts as they…

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