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Abdullahi Ibrahim

Associate Professor
Ph.D., Indiana University
area: African and Islam history
office: 209 Read Hall
phone: 573-882-9492
email: ibrahima@missouri.edu

Ph.D. Indiana University, 1987
M.A. University of Khartoum, 1980
Honors: University of Khartoum, 1966
B.A. University of Khartoum, 1965

Languages
Arabic: mother tongue
English: medium of instruction
German: reading skill

Dr. Ibrahim received bachelors and master’s degree from the University of Khartoum and completed his PhD at Indiana University. He taught at Khartoum University from 1987 to 1991. From 1991 to 1993 he was a fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study and Research in the African Humanities at the African Studies Program of Northwestern University. He joined MU faculty in1994 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2001.

He teaches survey courses in African History and undergraduate seminars on colonial and postcolonial Africa, soccer and imperialism, culture and history, and Islam and the West.

Straddling the fields of history, folklore, anthropology, literature, and politics, Ibrahim’s work is based on extensive fieldwork on oral traditions and other popular literary genres. He publishes in English and Arabic. His articles have published in History in Africa, International Journal of African Historical Studies, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Sudan Notes and Records, African Studies Review, Africa Today. He is the author of Assaulting with Words: Popular Discourse and the Bridle of Shari’ah (Islam) (1994). His forthcoming book, Manichaean Delirium: Decolonizing the Judiciary and Islamic Revival in Sudan, 1898-1985 (under review by Brill), critically examines the dual colonial judiciary of Sudan that has been at issue in the drive to Islamize the country. In Arabic he published The Mahdi-Ulama Conflict in Sudan (Khartoum1968, Cairo 1994); Culture and Democracy in Sudan (Cairo 1996) and ten other titles. His Sharia and Modernity will be published in Cairo.

 

 

 

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Assaulting with Words