Kai Kresse

Region of Interest	Africa
Primary Country of Residence	Germany
Title	Professor
Affiliation	Vice Director, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient Professor, Institut für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie Freie Universität Berlin
Email	Kai.Kresse@zmo.de
Mailing Address	Kirchweg 33 14129 Berlin Germany https://www.zmo.de/en/people/prof-dr-kai-kresse
Phone/Fax Number(s)	+49 (0) 30-80307-230
Countries of Specialization	Kenya ; Tanzania ; Comoros ; Madagascar
Education	Studied Philosophy, Anthropology, African Studies and German Literature in Hamburg, Vienna, and London.
Research Interests	Swahili intellectuals and the Indian Ocean world in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries CE ; Swahili texts in social and historical context ; modern intellectual history of Islam in Eastern Africa ; African philosophy, cultural philosophy and philosophical anthropology
Teaching Interests	Swahili studies
Publications	Author of: Swahili Muslim Publics and Postcolonial Experience in Coastal Kenya. Indiana University Press, 2018. Philosophising in Mombasa: knowledge, Islam and intellectual practice on the Swahili coast. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press for the International African Institute, c2007. Co-editor with Edward Simpson Struggling with history: Islam and cosmopolitanism in the Western Indian Ocean. New York: Columbia University Press, c2008. Co-editor with Anke Graness Sagacious reasoning: Henry Odera Oruka in memoriam.. Frankfurt am Main ; New York: P. Lang, c1997.
Keywords	Swahili ; Islam ; Kenya ; Indian Ocean ; Philosophy