Lamin Sanneh

Lamin Sanneh is the D. Willis James Professor of Missions & World Christianity in Yale Divinity School and a Professor of History and of International and Area Studies. He has studied classical Arabic and Islam and worked in the Middle East, as well as with the churches in Africa and with international organizations concerned with inter-religious issues. He is the author of over two hundred articles on religious and historical subjects, and of several books including Faith and Power: Christianity and Islam in “Secular” Britain (with Lesslie Newbigin and Jenny Taylor, 1998), The Crown and the Turban: Muslims and West African Pluralism (1997), Summoned from the Margin: An African Homecoming (a memoir) (2012), and a forthcoming study, Beyond Jihad: Pacifist Impetus in Muslim West Africa and Beyond. (Oxford University Press).