Department of Religion
Ph.D. Student, 2022
Email: tangz@ufl.edu
Zhu Tang is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Religion at the University of Florida. Before coming to UF, he earned his B.A. in Arabic from Sun Yat-sen University and his M.A. in the same field from the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing. His MA thesis examines Mauritania’s state-building through analyses of the history of Islamization and the relation between Islam and politics in Mauritania. His primary interests focus on the intersection of Islam and politics, contemporary Muslim thoughts, and the interaction between different Sufi orders in West African Sahelian countries.