BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 15.1//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Eastern Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Eastern Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Eastern Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs Maxwell African Scholars Union present Nana Asma'u: The Model for Literate Women MuslimsA Talk by Beverly Mack\, Professor\nEmerita of African Studies\, University\nof Kans as \; \n\nNana Asma’u was an 18th century woman\nwith 21st century sen sibilities. A devout Muslim\, she was a feminist\nactivist whose strategie s for political and religious reform changed the social\norder in northern Nigeria forever. Asma’u was classically educated\,\nquadrilingual daughte r of a jihad leader\, and an accomplished author and teacher\nof both wome n and men. Following the jihad\, Asma’u focused her energies on the\neduca tion of non-Muslim rural women\, socializing them through poetry. She\nacc omplished this by training cadres of women as itinerant teachers who used\ nAsma’u’s own poems as lesson plans in villages throughout the region. Thi s\nsystem of women educating other women became known in the Hausa languag e as the\n‘Yan Taru\, The Associates. \; The ‘Yan Taru\nprogram contin ued to operate in northern Nigeria after\nAsma’u’s death to the present ti me\, and has also been established among Muslim\nwomen in the United State s. \n\nSponsoring Departments: Maxwell African Scholars Union\, Moynihan I nstitute of Global Affairs\, and Middle Eastern Studies Program \; Con tact Havva Karakas-Keles for more information at \;hkarakas@syr.edu &n bsp\; DTEND:20181011T180000Z DTSTAMP:20260512T200627Z DTSTART:20181011T160000Z LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Nana Asma'u: The Model for Literate Women Muslims UID:RFCALITEM639141987876119282 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs

Maxwell African Scholars Union

present

Nana Asma' u: The Model for Literate Women Muslims

A Talk by Beverly M ack\, Professor\nEmerita of African Studies\, University\nof Kansas \;

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Nana Asma’u was an 18th century woman\nwith 21< sup>st century sensibilities. A devout Muslim\, she was a feminist\n activist whose strategies for political and religious reform changed the s ocial\norder in northern Nigeria forever. Asma’u was classically educated\ ,\nquadrilingual daughter of a jihad leader\, and an accomplished author a nd teacher\nof both women and men. Following the jihad\, Asma’u focused he r energies on the\neducation of non-Muslim rural women\, socializing them through poetry. She\naccomplished this by training cadres of women as itin erant teachers who used\nAsma’u’s own poems as lesson plans in villages th roughout the region. This\nsystem of women educating other women became kn own in the Hausa language as the\n‘Yan Taru\, The Associates. \; The ‘ Yan Taru\nprogram continued to operate in northern Nigeria after\nA sma’u’s death to the present time\, and has also been established among Mu slim\nwomen in the United States.

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Sponsoring Departments : Maxwell African Scholars Union\, Moynihan Institute of Global Aff airs\, and Middle Eastern Studies Program \;

Contact Havva Kara kas-Keles for more information at \; hkarakas@syr.edu  \;

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