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Lamin Sanneh (May 24, – January 6, ) was the D. Willis James Professor of Missions and World Christianity at Yale Divinity School and Professor of History at Yale University.

Biography

Sanneh was born and raised in Gambia as part of an ancient African royal family, and was a naturalized United States citizen.^[1] After studying at the University of Birmingham and the Near East School of Theology, Beirut, he earned his doctorate in Islamic History at the University of London.

Sanneh taught and worked at the University of Ghana, the University of Aberdeen, Harvard, and, from –, at Yale. He was an editor-at-large of The Christian Century, and served on the board of several other journals. Sanneh had honorary doctorates from University of Edinburgh and Liverpool Hope University.^[2]

He was a Commandeur de l'Ordre National du Lion, Senegal's highest national honor.

He was a member of the Pontifical Commission of the Historical Sciences and of the Pontifical Commission on Religious Relations with Muslims.^[2][3] In , a new institute was created in his name, the Sanneh Institute at the University of Ghana.^[4] The Overseas Ministry Study Center (OMSC) at Princeton Theological Seminary created a research grant named in honor of Sanneh.^[5]

Sanneh suffered a stroke and died on January 6, ^[1][6] He was survived by his wife, Sandra Sanneh, a professor of isiZulu at Yale University, and their children Sia Sanneh, a senior attorney at the Equal Justice Initiative, and Kelefa Sanneh, staff writer for The New Yorker.^[7]

Christianity and Islam

Sanneh converted to Christianity from Islam and was a practicing Roman Catholic.

Much of his scholarship related to the relationship between Christianity and Islam, especially in Africa and what he understood as "African Islam."^[3][8]

World Christianity

Another major area of Sanneh's academic work was in the study of World Christianity. In his Translating the Message (), Sanneh wrote about the significance of the translation of the Christian message into mother-tongue languages in places like Africa and Asia.

Instead of the dominant view that Christian mission primarily propagated "cosmopolitan values of an ascendant West," he argues, "The translation role of missionaries cast them as unwitting allies of mother-tongue speakers and as reluctant opponents of colonial domination."^[9] He continued to develop these reflections in his Disciples of All Nations ().

Selected books

• West African Christianity: The Religious Impact. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books.

  Lamin sanneh biography for kids today: Lamin Sanneh (May 24, – January 6, ) was the D. Willis James Professor of Missions and World Christianity at Yale Divinity School and Professor of History at Yale University. Sanneh was born and raised in Gambia as part of an ancient African royal family, and was a naturalized United States citizen.

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• Translating the Message: The Missionary Impact on Culture. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books. ISBN&#;.
• The Jakhanke Muslim Clerics: A Religious and Historical Study of Islam in Senegambia. Lanham, MD: University Press of America. ISBN&#;.
• Encountering the West: Christianity and the Global Cultural Process: The African Dimension.

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• Religion and the Variety of Culture: A Study in Origin and Practice. Valley Forge, PA: Trinity Press International. ISBN&#;.
• Het Evangelie is Niet Los Verkrijgbaar: Het Christendom als Inculturatie-Beweging. Kampen, The Netherlands: Kok.

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• Piety and Power: Muslims and Christians in West Africa. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books. ISBN&#;.
• The Crown and the Turban: Muslims and West African Pluralism. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. ISBN&#;.
• Faith and Power: Christianity and Islam in "Secular" Britain.

  London: SPCK.

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  On 6 January , theological academia around the world was rocked by the sudden and unexpected passing of Professor Lamin Sanneh. Born in an ancient African royal family in , in Gambia, a small country in the westernmost part of Africa, Sanneh grew up as a Muslim and converted to Christianity in his late teenage years. Throughout his life, he held an impressive portfolio of academic achievements and appointments. At the time of his passing, he was the D. He led numerous other initiatives, one being a flagship project on Religious Freedom and Society in Africa.

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• Abolitionists Abroad: American Blacks and the Making of Modern West Africa. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. ISBN&#;.
• Whose Religion is Christianity?: The Gospel Beyond the West. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Pub.

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• The Changing Face of Christianity: Africa, the West, and the World. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN&#;. (co-edited with Joel A. Carpenter)
• Disciples of all Nations: Pillars of World Christianity.

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• Summoned from the Margin: Homecoming of an African. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co. ISBN&#;.
• Beyond Jihad: The Pacifist Tradition in West African Islam. New York: Oxford University Press.
  Lamin sanneh biography for kids pictures He grew up in humble circumstances along the Gambia River in West Africa in an Islamic community, yet he died as a Christian associated with one of the most prestigious institutions of learning in the West, Yale University. He was the D. He was an extraordinarily gifted African scholar. He became a leading historian in the study of World Christianity, missions, and the little understood place of the local vernacular in Bible translation and its cultural implications. He provided a radical revision of and challenge to the received understanding among professional historians as to the role of Western missions, particularly in Africa.

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• The Wiley Blackwell Companion to World Christianity. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN&#;. (co-edited with Michael McClymond

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