November 21, 2016
At the DISS West Africa Conference in Frederikbarracks, The Hague, Professor Lamin Sanneh gave lecture on “Jihad and Civil Society: Commitment & Moderation.”
Lamin Sanneh is the D. Willis James Professor of Missions and World Christianity at Yale Divinity School, a professor of history, and director of the Project on Religious Freedom and Society in Africa at the MacMillan Center. He is the author of more than 200 articles on religious and historical subjects, and several books. Sanneh’s book, “Beyond Jihad,” explores the pacifist tradition of Islam in West Africa, describing how the religion took hold peacefully there — promoted by clerics who relied on religious scholarship and persuasion, not the sword.