Event Special Events Live! At The Library: The Rise and Expansion of Islam in Somalia

Date and Location

  • When: Thursday, September 5, 2024

    6:00 pm - 7:00 pm EDT

  • Where: Thomas Jefferson Building - Whittall Pavilion (LJG45E)

    10 1st Street SE, Washington, DC 20540

Part of Live at the Library

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Professor Mohamed Haji Mukhtar of Savannah State University takes visitors on a journey into a lesser-known chapter in the spread of Islam – its diffusion through the nomadic Somali-speaking clans of the Horn of Africa.