Kai Kresse

Domaine de recherche

l'Afrique

Pays de résidence

Allemagne

Titre

Professor

Affiliation

Vice Director, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient
Professor, Institut für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie
Freie Universität Berlin

Adresse électronique

Kai.Kresse@zmo.de

Adresse

Kirchweg 33
14129 Berlin
Germany

https://www.zmo.de/en/people/prof-dr-kai-kresse

Téléphone/Télécopie

+49 (0) 30-80307-230

Pays de spécialisation

Kenya ; Tanzania ; Comoros ; Madagascar

Éducation

Studied Philosophy, Anthropology, African Studies and German Literature in Hamburg, Vienna, and London.

Recherche

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

Enseignement

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.

Mots-clés

Swahili ; Islam ; Kenya ; Indian Ocean ; Philosophy