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16.12.2024
Institutskolloquium IfP (08.01.25) - Dr. Murtala Ibrahim (University of Jos / University of Tübingen)
The Middle East Geopolitics of Religion and the Emergence of Global Salafi and Shia Identities in the Anguwan Rogo Neighborhood of Jos, Nigeria
Wednesday, January 08th 2025, 16:00 c.t. / Room 124, Institut für Politikwissenschaft or online via Zoom
About the lecture: In his talk, Mutrala Ibrahim will explore how the geopolitics of religion between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Islamic Republic of Iran led to a flow of people (international student mobility), ideas (through Islamic satellite televisions), and goods (Islamic merchandise) from the Middle East to northern Nigeria, transforming the local neighborhood of Anguwan Rogo into a global space. The talk will also examine how these transnational flows create new Salafi and Shia identities and transform the neighborhood into a zone of global religious encounters where the two groups become entangled in mistrust, conflicts, and spatial contestations. The forces of global geopolitics of religion described above have combined to inspire new relationships, discourses, knowledge production, lived experiences, and practices that globalize everyday religious life in the Anguwan Rogo neighborhood. These transnational interconnections make the contemporary Salafi and Shia comprehensively global identities.
Mutrala Ibrahim is a Global Encounters Fellow at the University of Tübingen. He is hosted by the Institute of Political Science and the Center for Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Studies. In 2017, he received his Ph.D. from the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Utrecht University. Since than he served as a lecturer at the University of Jos/Nigeria. Additionally, he has won several scholarships from the University of Berlin and Utrecht University. Dr. Murtala Ibrahim has published his work in leading academic journals such as Culture and Religion, Journal of Religion in Africa, Religion Compass or Religion State & Society.