American historian
Rudolph "Butch" T. Ware III is an historian of West Africa , at the University of California, Santa Barbara . He formerly taught at the University of Michigan and before then at Northwestern University .[1] [2] His work aims to confront and dispel Western misconceptions about Islam .[citation needed ] He received his Ph.D. in history in 2004 from the University of Pennsylvania .[3]
Selected publications
Ware, Rudolph T.; Wright, Zachary Valentine; Syed, Amir (2018). Jihad of the Pen: The Sufi Literature of West Africa . American University in Cairo Press. ISBN 978-977-416-863-5 . [4]
Ware, Rudolph T. (2014). The Walking Qurʼan: Islamic Education, Embodied Knowledge, and History in West Africa . UNC Press Books. ISBN 978-1-4696-1431-1 . Project MUSE book 31232 . [5]
References
^ "EIHS Lecture: 'Visionaries: Second Sight and Social Change in West Africa Since 1800' " . U-M LSA Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies (Press release).
^ "Instagram" . www.instagram.com .
^ "Butch Ware – Department of History, UC Santa Barbara" . Retrieved January 15, 2024 .
^ Reviews of Jihad of the Pen :
^ Reviews of The Walking Qur'an :
Anouk Cohen, Bulletin critique des annales islamologiques (in French), [1]
Emad Hamdeh, American Journal of Islam and Society , doi :10.35632/ajis.v32i1.961
Muhammed Haron, African Historical Review , doi :10.1080/17532523.2016.1227605
David E. Skinner, Islamic Africa , doi :10.1163/21540993-00602010 , JSTOR 90017388
Alden Young, "A Revisionist History of West Africa", Books & Ideas , [2]
External links
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