![Farah El-Sharif](https://newlinesmag.com/wp-content/uploads/Farah-El-Sharifweb-260x260.jpg)
Farah El-Sharif
Farah El-Sharif is a scholar of Islamic intellectual history and is the associate director of the Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies at Stanford University.
Latest from Farah El-Sharif
![Two 19th-Century Tales of Muslims and American Slavery](https://newlinesmag.com/wp-content/uploads/Omarweb.jpg)
Two 19th-Century Tales of Muslims and American Slavery
Western scholarly approaches tend to approach African and Islamic studies in separate lenses: “too Islamic” to be a legitimate subject of study for most anthropologists and Africanists, and “too African” to be of interest to Islamicists, thereby causing African-Muslim scholarly voices to fall through the cracks.