Beyond Jihad: The Pacifist Tradition in West African Islam

The Yale Center for the Study of Globalization hosted the presentation of a new book by Professor Lamin Sanneh, “Beyond Jihad: The Pacifist Tradition in West African Islam.” Commentary by Professor Owen Fiss of the Yale Law School; Remarks on pacifism in Islam by Greenberg World Fellows 2016 Sughra Ahmed, Chair of the Islamic Society of Britain and Kanbar Hossein-bor, Senior British Diplomat in the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office