Biography of alamin mazrui holding

THE warrior is dead, and the spear burns still. The faint of heart scatter in fear of the scorching flames. Professor Ali Al'amin Mazrui died on Monday, and death has robbed us of one of Africa’s greatest scholars.

He passed away on Monday morning in Binghamton, New York, USA.

Africa has lost one of its finest sons, a straight talker who frightened corrupt African leaders and their Western corruptors alike. He proved beyond doubt that the human intellect was raceless.

Born on February 24, in Mombasa, Kenya, Mazrui was an academic and political writer of note, specialising on African and Islamic studies and North-South relations.

His acid tongue did not spare any ruler, insignificant or great.

Mazrui questioned the American policy on the so-called war on terror

&#;One question which the (Barack) Obama war on terror has posed is whether the drone has become a weapon of ethnic-specific targeted assassinations,&#; he said in one of his lecture titl

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Family Obituary of Ali Mazrui

Renowned Pan-Africanist, Scholar and Teacher, Ali Mazrui dies at 81

Ali Al’Amin Mazrui, 81, died peacefully on October 12, of natural causes at his home in Vestal,
New York, surrounded by family. A political scientist, Mazrui was the Albert Schweitzer Professor in
the Humanities and Director of the Institute of Global Cultural Studies at Binghamton University,
State University of New York, until his retirement on September 1, He had also been serving
as the Andrew D. White Professor-at-Large Emeritus and Senior Scholar in Africana Studies at
Cornell University and as the Albert Luthuli Professor-at-Large at the University of Jos, Nigeria. He
was a renowned scholar, teacher and public intellectual with expertise in African politics,
international political culture, political Islam, and North-South relations. His prolific writing over the
past half century has shaped ideas about Africa and Islam among scholars and the general public,
earning him bot

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GUIDANCE (Uwongozi) bygd Sheikh Al-Amin Ali Al-Mazrui ()

Guidance (Uwongozi) by Sheikh al-Amin Mazrui: Selections from the First Swahili Islamic Newspaper

Kai Kresse

Sheikh al-Amin Mazrui's writings from the Uwongozi collection are a rik resource for students, researchers and anyone generally interested in social and historical aspects of Islam in East Africa. This bilingual edition seeks to man accessible the significant and unique commentaries by Sheikh al-Amin, who was a partial observer of, and an active participant in, the affairs of coastal Muslims. These texts have already fed into research projects in the past (particularly in the s and s, informing for instance the works of Margret Strobel, Ahmed Idha Salim, and Randal Pouwels). Still, much more can be taken up and commented upon-from historical, anthropological, linguistic, and religious studies perspectives; and in comparative perspective too, with a view to related Indian Ocean littorals, similar projects of Islam