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Zekeria Ould Ahmed Salem

Zekeria Ould Ahmed Salem is associate professor of political science at Northwestern University and director of the Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa.

The Importance of Mauritanian Scholars in Global Islam
Mohamed Lemine Ould Abdallahi, custodian of his family’s library of ancient manuscripts, with an original text in the Mauritanian village of Chinguetti. Some of the 1,400 manuscripts in the family library, located on the southern fringes of the Sahara desert, are from Mecca and Medina and are more than 900 years old. Finbarr O’Reilly/Reuters
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The Importance of Mauritanian Scholars in Global Islam

The North African nation of Mauritania may be peripheral in global affairs, but its robust network of Islamic scholars is central to transnational Islamic movements and ideas. Zekeria Ould Ahmed Salem traces the influential political economy of Mauritanian Islamic scholarship that has both bolstered
Zekeria Ould Ahmed Salem • 11 min read
The Importance of Mauritanian Scholars in Global Islam
Mohamed Lemine Ould Abdallahi, custodian of his family’s library of ancient manuscripts, with an original text in the Mauritanian village of Chinguetti. Some of the 1,400 manuscripts in the family library, located on the southern fringes of the Sahara desert, are from Mecca and Medina and are more than 900 years old. Finbarr O’Reilly/Reuters
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The Importance of Mauritanian Scholars in Global Islam

The North African nation of Mauritania may be peripheral in global affairs, but its robust network of Islamic scholars is central to transnational Islamic movements and ideas. Zekeria Ould Ahmed Salem traces the influential political economy of Mauritanian Islamic scholarship that has both bolstered
Zekeria Ould Ahmed Salem • 11 min read