【学术讲座预告】New Muslim Public Intellectuals in Africa

讲座题目

New Muslim Public Intellectuals in Africa

讲座人

Professor Benjamin Soares, African Studies Centre, Leiden & University of Amsterdam

荷兰莱顿非洲研究中心科研委员会主席、阿姆斯特丹大学特聘教授，著名宗教人类学专家本杰明·苏亚雷斯

主办单位

  北京外国语大学亚非学院  中国非洲史研究会

时间

2016年5月10日（周二）下午2:00—4:00

地点

北京外国语大学东院主楼344房间 

This lecture concerns new kinds of Muslim public figures that have arisenwithin the context of the media revolution in Africa. Such Muslim publicintellectual are those who communicate about Islam or as Muslims to the publicor various publics in Africa and sometimes beyond. This communication can beoral or written communication and might be face-to-face communication insermons and teaching or mass-mediated via television, radio, audiocassette,video, DVD, the internet or social media and includes newspaper columnists,bloggers, activists, preachers, and various media stars.

Background Readings:

Eickelman, Dale F., and Jon W. Anderson, eds. 1999. New Media in the Muslim World: The Emerging Public Sphere. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Kurzman, Charles, and Lynn Owens. 2002. “The Sociology of Intellectuals.” Annual Review of Sociology 28: 63–90.

Soares, Benjamin F. 2004. “Islam and Public Piety in Mali.” In Public Islam and the Common Good, edited by Armando Salvatore and Dale F. Eickelman, pp. 205-226. Leiden: Brill.

Zaman, Muhammad Qasim. 2011. “The ‘Ulama’: Scholarly Tradition and New Public Commentary.” In Muslims and Modernity: Culture and Society since 1800. The New Cambridge History of Islam, vol. 6, edited by Robert W. Hefner, pp. 335-54. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press