Muslim Ulama in the Intellectual History of the Wider Lake Chad

Muslim Ulama in the Intellectual History
of the Wider Lake Chad Region
(UCT Oppenheimer Africa Project 2014)
16th-20th November, 2014
Monkey Valley Conferencing, Noordhoek, Cape Town
Workshop Programme

Sunday, 16th November
19:00
Welcome Dinner
Monday, 17th November
07:30
Breakfast
08:30
Andrea
Brigaglia
University of Cape Town
Opening Remarks
09:00
Mahamat
Saleh Ayoub
Université de Ndjamena
Etudes sur l’Islam au Tchad:
Esquisse Bibliographique
10:00
Dorrit Van
Dalen
Leiden University
Scholarship and Society in 17th-
Century Baghirmi: Muhammad
al-Wali (d. 1668) and his Times
10:45
Morning Tea
11:15
Tahir Abba
Bayero University, Kano
A Glimpse at the Kanuri Ajami
Tradition
12:00
Muhammad
Shettima
Ibrahim
Damaturu Central Mosque, Yobe
State
The Sahel Centre for
Manuscript Archive and
Research in Damaturu: Future
Plans and Challenges
13:00
Lunch
15:00
Rémi Dewière
University Paris 1 Panthéon
Sorbonne
From Sultan to Wali, the role
of 'ulama in the evolution of the
Islamic legitimacy in the Borno
sultanate, 13th-17th centuries
15:45
Maimadu
Mutai
University of Maiduguri
Private Manuscript Collections in
Northeastern Nigeria: an
Overview

16:30
Afternoon Tea
17:00-
18:00
Dmitry
Bondarev
Centre for the Study of
Manuscript Cultures, Hamburg
Old Kanembu Islamic
Manuscripts (OKIM): a
presentation of an open access
digital archive.
19:00
Dinner
Tuesday, 18 November
07:30
Breakfast
08:30
Hamadou
Adama
Université de Ngaoundéré
Etudes sur l’Islam au Cameroun:
Esquisse Bibliographique
09:30
Halirou
Mohamadou
Université de Ngaoundéré
Inventaire thematique et
analytique de la bibliotheque
privee de Moodibbo Alhadji
Ousmanou de Bogo (1884-
1970) (Nord Cameroun)
10:30
Morning Tea
11:00
Salisu Bala
Arewa House Centre for
Historical Documentation and
Research (Kaduna)
The Modibbo Fufore
Manuscripts Collection: A
Source for the Study of the State
of Islamic Learning in
Twentieth-Century Adamawa
11:45
Musa S.
Muhammad
Arewa House Centre for
Historical Documentation and
Research (Kaduna)
Wide-Spaced Lines in Nigerian
Manuscripts: A Study of the
Modibbo Fufore Collection
12:30
Lunch

14:30
Bukar
Université de Ngaoundéré
Goni Tchari et sa contribution à
l’éducation Islamique dans la
région de Kolofata au Nord-
Cameroun
15:15
Ahmed
Khalid Ayong
Universität Bayreuth
Islamic Scholarship in Northern
Cameroon: the Jauleru Tradition
16:00
Afternoon Tea
16:30-
17:30
Dmitry
Bondarev
Centre for the Study of
Manuscript Cultures, Hamburg
Basic Procedures for Digital
Photography of Manuscripts in
the Wider Lake Chad Region
19:00
Dinner
Wednesday, 19th November
07:30
Breakfast
08:30
Brainstorming Session
Challenges to the Research on Islam in the Lake Chad Area: Local and International
Perspectives
(Chaired by Andrea Brigaglia, University of Cape Town)
10:30
Morning Tea
11:00
Open Discussion
Islam in the Lake Chad Area: Strategies for Future Research
(Chaired by Andrea Brigaglia, University of Cape Town)
12:30-
14:30
Lunch
16:30
Depart for Cape Town

Thursday, 20th November
18:00-
20:00
Public Colloquium at the University of Cape Town, Centre for African Studies Gallery
The Boko Haram Crisis: Muslim Perspectives from the Lake Chad
Region
Professor Mahamat S. Ayoub (Université de Ndjamena): A Chadian Perspective
Professor Hamadou Adama (Université de Ngaoundéré): A Cameroonian
Perspective
Imam Muhammad Shettima Ibrahim (Damaturu Central Mosque, Yobe State): A
Nigerian Perspective