Occupation
Associate Professor
Contact
Northwestern University in Qatar
PO Box 34102
Doha
Qatar
ABOUT
Zachary Wright is an assistant professor in residence at Northwestern University in Qatar, with joint appointments in history and religious studies. He teaches courses on the history of the Middle East, the history of Africa, and Islamic intellectual history. Wright’s research concentrates on practices of Islamic learning in Africa. His newest book (Brill, 2015) concerns Islamic learning in West Africa, and is titled, Living Knowledge in West African Islam: the Sufi Community of Ibrahim Niasse.
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
African Studies
Islamic Studies
Islamic Thought
Modernization
Mysticism/Sufi Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Africa (Sub-Saharan)
All Middle East
Maghreb
Specialties
Islamic Learning And Subjectivities
Religious Sciences (ʿulūm Al-dīn)
Modernization And Muslim Societies
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
French (advanced)
English (native)
Wolof (intermediate)
Education
DPhil
| 2010
| History
| Northwestern University
MA
| 2003
| Arabic Studies/Middle East History
| American University in Cairo
BA
| 1999
| History
| Stanford University
Abstracts
Sufi Selfhood in the Eighteenth Century Ṭarīqa Muḥammadiyya
