Occupation
Graduate Student (Doctoral)
Contact
Primary Phone: 9293236204
ABOUT
Umar's academic journey started at al-Azhar University, Cairo Egypt where he received his first degree in Islamic Philosophy and Theology in 2010, and then attended the University of Malaya, Malaysia for a Master of Theology program. Now, he is pursuing a Ph.D. at Columbia University, New York, working on the Islamic Intellectual History of West African Written and Discursive Traditions of Rational sciences. Before coming to Columbia, he attended the Graduate Research Training program at McGill University Montreal in 2019. Umar is an academic staff of Islamic studies, at Bauchi State University Gadau, Nigeria. He is a founder and a leader of the Qadat al-Fikr Foundation.
Discipline
Religious Studies/Theology
Sub Areas
Islamic Thought
African Studies
Historiography
Geographic Areas of Interest
Africa (Sub-Saharan)
Maghreb
Specialties
Islamic Intellectual History
Rational Sciences
West African Studies
Languages
Hausa (native)
Arabic (fluent)
Malay (elementary)
Wolof (elementary)
Education
MA
| 2022
| MESAAS
| Columbia University
MA
| 2017
| Islamic Thoughts and Religion
| University of Malaya
BA
| 2010
| `Aqidah and Philosophy/Theology
| al-Azhar University
Abstracts
Medieval History of Islamic Rational Sciences: A Quest for Decentralization of West African Epistemology
