Rethinking African History Through the Lens of Islamic Law: Colonial Zanzibar

The Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies cordially invites you to this guest seminar

Elke Stockreiter
Associate Professor, Department of History
American University, Washington DC

Elke Stockreiter is a historian of modern Africa. Her research and teaching interests include the histories of colonialism, gender, race, and slavery in Africa and the Indian Ocean World. Trained as an Africanist and Arabist, her research explores the intersection of ethnicity, gender, and social mobility in East and West Africa through the lens of Islamic law. She has recently published her first book, Islamic Law, Gender, and Social Change in Post-Abolition Zanzibar (Cambridge University Press, 2015), which provides new evidence on female agency and the workings of Islamic courts during the British colonial period, 1890-1963.