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Joseph Hill |
Director of the Medina Baay Research Association; Visiting Assistant Professor, American University in Cairo
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Sociology, Anthropology, Psychology & Egyptology Department
American University in Cairo
P.O. Box 74 |
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New Cairo |
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Egypt |
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20 2 2615-1862 |
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http://keemtaan.net/
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Joseph Hill, an Anthropologist specializing primarily in Islam in West Africa, began his research in Senegal in 1998. Since then, he has extended his research activities to a number of other countries, notably Mauritania, Egypt, and the United States.
Hill founded the Medina Baay Research Association with a number of residents of Medina Baay in 2004 while researched for his doctoral dissertation in Anthropology at Yale University, which he completed in 2007. Since then, he has taught at the University of Rochester and, currently, at the American University in Cairo.
Joseph Hill's current academic writings are all about the Taalibe Baay, or the followers of Shaykh Ibrahim Ñas. They include such topics as the relationships between religious and secular governance in a predominantly Muslim but secular state; women who act as Islamic leaders; the use of languages (Wolof, Arabic, French) in Islamic oratory; and how the paradoxical logics of Sufi mysticism serve to avert potential conflicts and to accommodate and assert competing points of view.
As the creator and maintainer of this site and research project, Joseph Hill invites you to contact him with your feedback and suggestions, and to see his works in progress at his academic home page. |
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