Rudolph 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] His work aims to confront and dispel Western misconceptions about Islam. He received his Ph.D. in history in 2004 from the University of Pennsylvania.

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.
  • 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.[2]
  • Ware, Rudolph T. (2009). "The Longue Durée of Quran Schooling, Society, and State in Senegambia". New Perspectives on Islam in Senegal. pp. 21–50. doi:10.1057/9780230618503_2. ISBN 978-1-349-37376-5.

References

  1. ↑ "EIHS Lecture: 'Visionaries: Second Sight and Social Change in West Africa Since 1800'". U-M LSA Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies (Press release).
  2. ↑ Young, Alden (9 November 2015). "A Revisionist History of West Africa". Books & Ideas.
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