Diagne Souleymane Bachir © Le Figaro

PHILOSOPHER

Senegal / United Sates

A specialist in Islamic philosophy and Sufism in particular, Souleymane Bachir Diagne is a philosopher and historian of science. He was born in Senegal and talk there for 20 years before emigrating to the United States, where he teaches in the French and philosophy department at Columbia University (New York).

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