Ousmane Oumar KaneOusmane Oumar Kane is a Senegalese Muslim scholar of Islamic studies.[1][2] He holds the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Chair on Contemporary Islamic Religion and Society at the Harvard Divinity School and the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization at Harvard University since July 2012.[1] BiographyKane received a Bachelor of Arts in Arabic and a Masters in Islamic Studies from the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales at the University of the Sorbonne Nouvelle, and an M. Phil and a Ph.D in Political Science and Middle Eastern Studies from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris. He held the position of assistant professor of political science at Université Gaston Berger de Saint-Louis in Senegal,[3] and visiting positions at the University of London, the University of Kansas, Yale University, and the Institute for Advanced Study Berlin. He became associate professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University in 2002, and left for Harvard in 2012.[4] Kane is the maternal grandson of Senegalese Islamic scholar, Ibrahim Niass. Publications
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