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2026 Hajja Razia Sharif Sheikh Lecture in Islamic Studies

The Afterlives of Yemeni Coffee in South Africa: On Contributions to Postcolonial Racial Less/ness from the Annals of Oceanic Islamic Indigeneity
Wednesday, April 8, 2026
5:00-7:00 PM
Michigan Room Michigan League Map
In this lecture Professor Flagg Miller probes Islam’s contributions to anticolonialism in southern Africa by focusing on the Yemeni ʿAlawiyyah’s thought and practice in diasporic Muslim engagements with the global coffee trade, asking how the pleasures and perils of coffee have constituted and re-animated ʿAlawiyyah-centered strategies for building
solidarity against the ravages of Euro-Asiatic slavery and mortgage capitalism.
Building: Michigan League
Event Type: Lecture / Discussion
Tags: Culture, Islam, South Africa
Source: Happening @ Michigan from Department of Middle East Studies