Akbar Muhammad

Associate Professor
Ph.D., Edinburgh University
Africa, Islam
Office: LT 1312
Phone: (607) 777-2434   E-mail: muhamma@binghamton.edu

Recent or current undergraduate courses:

• Introduction to African History
• Muslim Peoples of the World
• Islam in the Americas

Recent or current graduate courses:

• Muslim Social History
• Muslim Social History to Nineteenth-Century
• West African History
• West Africa to the 20th Century
• North African History: 16th-20th Centuries
• Topics in Muslim African History

Courses with an asterisk are also open to undergraduates.

Significant Publications

Books:

• Racism, Sexism, and the World-System, co-editor with J. Smith, J. Collins and T.K. Hopkins. Greenwood Press, 1988.

Articles:

• "The Image of Africans in Arabic Literature: Some Unpublished Manuscripts," in John R. Willis, ed., Slaves and Slavery in Muslim Africa, Volume I: Islam and the Ideology of Enslavement. Frank Cass, 1985, pp. 47-74.
• "Muslims in the United States: An Overview of Organizations, Doctrines, and Problems," in Y.Y. Haddad, B. Haines, and E. Findly, eds., The Islamic Impact. Syracuse University Press, 1984, pp. 195-217.
• "Islam and National Integration Through Education in Nigeria," in John L. Esposito, ed., Islam and Development: Religion and Sociopolitical Change. Syracuse University Press, 1980, pp. 181-205.
• "The Samorian Occupation of Bondoukou: An Indigenous View," The International Journal of African Historical Studies X, no. 2 (1977): 242-58.