Cheikh Anta Babou

Associate Professor

History

Research Interests:

Mystical Islam in West Africa; Senegal; The New African Diaspora in Europe and North America

Overseas Research Experience:

France, Senegal

Recent Publications:

Fighting the Greater Jihad: Amadu Bamba and the Founding of the Muridiyya of Senegal, 1853-1913. Ohio University Press, 2007.

Courses:

Africa Before 1800; Religion and Colonial Rule in Africa; Islam and America