American historian
Rudolph "Butch" 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][2] His work aims to confront and dispel Western misconceptions about Islam.[citation needed] He received his Ph.D. in history in 2004 from the University of Pennsylvania.[3]
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.[4]
- 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.[5]
References
- ^ "EIHS Lecture: 'Visionaries: Second Sight and Social Change in West Africa Since 1800'". U-M LSA Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies (Press release).
- ^ "Instagram". www.instagram.com.
- ^ "Butch Ware – Department of History, UC Santa Barbara". Retrieved January 15, 2024.
- ^ Reviews of Jihad of the Pen:
- U Chinedu Amaefula, African Studies Quarterly, ProQuest 2424657574
- Wendell Marsh, The Journal of African History, doi:10.1017/S0021853721000153
- Eliza Tasbihi, Journal of Islamic Studies, doi:10.1093/jis/etab038
- ^ Reviews of The Walking Qur'an:
- Anouk Cohen, Bulletin critique des annales islamologiques (in French), [1]
- Emad Hamdeh, American Journal of Islam and Society, doi:10.35632/ajis.v32i1.961
- Muhammed Haron, African Historical Review, doi:10.1080/17532523.2016.1227605
- David E. Skinner, Islamic Africa, doi:10.1163/21540993-00602010, JSTOR 90017388
- Alden Young, "A Revisionist History of West Africa", Books & Ideas, [2]
External links
- Faculty website
- "Christopher Brown and Rudolph Ware". The New York Public Library.
