Oludamini Ogunnaike

Dr. Oludamini Ogunnaike holds a PhD in African Studies and the Study of Religion from Harvard University and serves as Assistant Professor of African Religious Thought at the University of Virginia. His scholarly work sits at the intersection of African Islamic traditions, comparative religious studies, and Sufi thought. His book Poetry In Praise Of Prophetic Perfection, published by the Islamic Texts Society, examines the tradition of panegyric poetry in praise of the Prophet (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) within West African Islamic contexts, bringing together literary analysis and the study of religious experience. His research contributes to a growing field of scholarship on Islam in Africa that centers indigenous African Islamic intellectual traditions.