Anne Katrine Bang
Current projects
Sudan-Norway Academic Cooperation (SNAC)
Completed projects
Women's Human Rights and Law Reform in the Muslim World
Transformations in the Arab World
Mid-term Review of UMOJA CFC SOUTH PROJECT and MAPUTO CONCERTS
Muslim Devotional Practices, Aesthetics, and Cultural Formation in Migrancy
The Manuscripts of the Riydha Mosque in Lamu
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Historian of Islamic societies with a special focus on Arabia and the Muslim communities of Eastern Africa as well as the wider Indian Ocean rim.
Historian of Islamic societies with a special focus on Arabia and the Muslim communities of Eastern Africa as well as the wider Indian Ocean rim.
Her research has primarily focused on factors that cause ritual and devotional life, intellectual discourses and political ideologies to change in different Muslim societies. Focusing on the Muslim societies of the Indian Ocean (east/southeast Africa) and Southeast Asia her research has mainly focused on migration and cosmopolitan Muslim societies and the ensuing family- trade- and scholarly networks. She has also worked on Islamic education and on the transmission of scriptural cultural heritage in Africa. In addition, she has worked on the role of Norwegian traders in during the colonial era.
She has published several books and articles on these topics.
Bang is co-editor of the Indian Ocean series published by Hurst&Co (London) and of the journal Islamic Africa (NWU Press).