The Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa (ISITA) was founded in 2000 by John O. Hunwick (Northwestern University) and R. Séan O'Fahey (University of Bergen), who have collaborated for many years to achieve a better understanding of African Islamic thought. Over ten years ago they embarked on the Arabic Literature of Africa (ALA) project, and in the mid-1990s published the first two volumes of this guide to the Islamic intellectual tradition in Africa. They also founded Sudanic Africa: A Journal of Historical Sources , which is devoted to presentation and discussion of historical sources from the Sudanic
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