Timbuktu Talks: 'Return to Success': New Paradigms of Islamization in Senegambia

Please join us for an event in the Timbuktu Talks series with Aly Drame titled "Return to Success": New Paradigms of Islamization in Senegambia. This will be a hybrid event. If you can't attend in person, you may attend on zoom.

This presentation calls attention to the need to better reframe the rise and development of Islam in the wider Senegambia, considering the role played by the Mandinka Muslim settlements in the Middle Casamance in this process through intermarriage, Qur'anic education and Jihad.

About the Speaker: Aly Drame is a professor of History at Dominican University in River Forest IL where he teaches Africa, Islam and immigration. His recent book title is The Institutionalization of Islam in Southern Senegal (University of Michigan Press, July 2025).

He shows how new spaces were negotiated, acquired and incorporated into the Islamic world by early Muslim clerics who immigrated to Southern Senegal.