Souleymane Bachir Diagne

Souleymane Bachir Diagne is a Professor in the Departments of Philosophy and Religion, with an affiliation with the Department of French and Italian. His areas of research and publication include History of Philosophy, History of Logic and Mathematics, Islamic Philosophy and African Philosophy and Literature.

He has written dozens of articles and contributions in those fields, and has published, in particular, the following:

• Boole, l’oiseau de nuit en plein jour [Boole, a night bird in the daylight](Paris: Belin, 1989), a study of George Boole’s algebra of logic;
• Islam et société ouverte, la fidélité et le mouvement dans la pensée de Muhammad Iqbal [ Islam and the open society : fidelity and movement in Muhammad Iqbal’s thought](Paris : Maisonneuve et Larose, 2001), a study of Indian poet and philosopher Muhammd Iqbal;
• 100 mots pour dire l’islam [One hundred definitions to understand Islam] (Paris: Maisonneuve et Larose, 2002), a lexicon of Islamic notions and figures;
• The cultural question in Africa (with Henri Ossebi), Dakar, Codesria, 1996;
• Reconstruire le sen: textes et enjeux de prospectives africaines [Reconstructing meaning: studies on African perspectives and their stakes] Dakar, Codesria, 2000;
• his latest book, Léopold Sédar Senghor, l’art africain comme philosophie (Paris, Riveneuve Editions, 2007) is being translated into English under the title: Léopold Sédar Senghor’s Theory of Négritude: African art as philosophy.