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Souleymane Bachir Diagne

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سليمان بشير دياغني

Senegalese philosopher (born 1955 in Saint-Louis), professor of French and philosophy at Columbia University, whose work joins the history of logic and mathematics to the philosophical traditions of Islam and Africa. His books include Comment philosopher en Islam (2010) and Open to Reason: Muslim Philosophers in Conversation with the Western Tradition (2018).

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Roles
Philosopher · writer
Region
West Africa & Sahel · al-Andalus & Europe · Americas & Oceania
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The Colonial Era · The Contemporary Era · The Modern Era Contemporaries: A. K. Fazlul Huq · Abbas-Ali Amid Zanjani · Abbas Kiarostami · Abbas Mahmoud al-Aqqad · Abd al-Aziz al-Ghumari

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    Sources

    • Souleymane Bachir Diagne — English Wikipedia
    • Souleymane Bachir Diagne — French Wikipedia
    • Souleymane Bachir Diagne — Wikidata
    • Souleymane Bachir Diagne — Les Échos profile by Roger-Pol Droit (2018)
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    islam.museum contributors. “Souleymane Bachir Diagne”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/souleymane-bachir-diagne/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-06.

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