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.
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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.