Timbuktu Talk Series: Ibadi Approaches to Muslim Unity in Tanzania
- Event Type
- Lecture
- Sponsor
- Center for African Studies (CAS)
- Location
- 108 Coble Hall and Zoom
- Virtual
- Join online
- Date
- Apr 7, 2023 2:30 - 4:00 pm
- Speaker
- Dr. Kimberly T. Wortmann (Assistant Professor in the Study of Religions at Wake Forest University in NC)
- Contact
- Fangyong Kuma
- ekuma2@illinois.edu
- Views
- 101
- Originating Calendar
- Center for African studies - Outreach Calendar
This talk will explore how the Omani diaspora in Tanzania has articulated Ibadi Muslim identity in the decades since the 1964 Zanzibar revolution. It will show that Ibadi leaders draw on a rhetoric of Muslim unity and religious tolerance to publicly demonstrate the inclusivity of contemporary Ibadism, while also showing the limits of inclusion by defining communal identity along ethnic and religious lines.
Zoom link: https://go.illinois.edu/DrWortmann
Meeting ID: 864 0736 5970 | Password: 281243