Zachary Wright
My research focuses on Islamic intellectual history in West Africa. I teach courses on Middle East History, African History, Islamic Studies, Islam in Africa, and Islam in America.
Supervisors: Rudolph Ware, Ousmane Kane, and Ruediger Seesemann
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largely have been dismissed as marginal to “ordinary” Africans, or
the vast majority who did not have the opportunity to study in Paris
or London and meet with ideologues of Black nationalism from the
diaspora. Sub-Saharan African Muslims earlier responded to a process
of racial othering, particularly in response to the prejudice of some
Arab coreligionists. Even if Black African Muslims were reacting to
decidedly different circumstances than African Americans or Black
West Indians studying in Europe, Muslim articulations of Black cultural
identity in the twentieth century successfully pivoted to the new
historical discourse, both apprising and contributing to the discourse
on Africanité emerging from the diaspora. This study considers the
engagement with the question of Black racial identity by the prominent
Senegalese Muslim scholar Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse (1900–1975).
Books by Zachary Wright
largely have been dismissed as marginal to “ordinary” Africans, or
the vast majority who did not have the opportunity to study in Paris
or London and meet with ideologues of Black nationalism from the
diaspora. Sub-Saharan African Muslims earlier responded to a process
of racial othering, particularly in response to the prejudice of some
Arab coreligionists. Even if Black African Muslims were reacting to
decidedly different circumstances than African Americans or Black
West Indians studying in Europe, Muslim articulations of Black cultural
identity in the twentieth century successfully pivoted to the new
historical discourse, both apprising and contributing to the discourse
on Africanité emerging from the diaspora. This study considers the
engagement with the question of Black racial identity by the prominent
Senegalese Muslim scholar Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse (1900–1975).