Issa Laye Thiaw (1943 – 10 September 2017)''Obituary of Professor Issa Laye Thiaw'' : "Our special tribute to Professor Issa Laye Thiaw", by The Seereer Resource Centre, Seereer Radio and Seereer Heritage Press. Published: 11 September 201

was a Senegalese

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human species; as well as the ...

theologian Theology is the study of religious belief from a religious perspective, with a focus on the nature of divinity. It is taught as an academic discipline, typically in universities and seminaries. It occupies itself with the unique content of ...

and author on

Serer religion The Serer religion or Serer spirituality (''Serer language, Serer:'' A ƭat Roog, meaning "the way of the Divine", "path of God", or "religious life"Kalis, Simone, ''Médecine traditionnelle, religion et divination chez les Seereer Siin du Sén� ...

, Serer tradition and history. Born into a Serer family, himself the son of a Serer High Priest (

Saltigue The Saltigue (other spelling: Saltigué, Saltigui or Saltigi in Serer), are Serer high priests and priestesses who preside over the religious ceremonies and affairs of the Serer people, such as the '' Xooy'' (or ''Xoy'') ceremony, the biggest ...

), Thiaw is a specialist in the Serer religion. He was a former researcher at the Centre d’études des civilisations (CEC; Centre for Studies in Civilizations) of

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. Some of Thiaw's works include: *Issa Laye Thiaw. ''La femme Seereer'', Sénégal, 2005, Sociétés africaines et diaspora. Edition L'harmattan, *Issa Laye Thiaw. "La religiosité Seereer, avant et pendant leur Islamisation." In: ''Ethiopiques'', No. 55 (1992)János Riesz, Papa Samba Diop, Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink, Ute Fendler, Christoph Vatter. Littératures et sociétés africaines, p. 483. Gunter Narr Verlag, 2001.

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Scholars of the Serer religion Scholars of Serer history Serer historians Senegalese non-fiction writers 1943 births 2017 deaths People from Thiès region Senegalese pan-Africanists {{Senegal-writer-stub

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