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Kresse, Kai

2011
- (with Edward Simpson): Between Africa and India: thinking comparatively across the western Indian Ocean, ZMO Working Papers No. 5, Berlin, 15 p.

-“Enduring relevance: samples of oral poetry on the Swahili coast“, in Wasafiri: Journal of Contemporary Writing, special issue on Indian Oceans oral literatures (edited by Stephanie Jones), vol. 26/2,  46-49.

- Auf dem Weg zu mehr Interdisziplinarität und Zusammenarbeit bei der Erfoschung der philosophischen Traditionen in Afrika, in: polylog - Zeitschrift für interkulturelles Philosophieren, Das Projekt interkulturelles Philosophieren heute, Bd. 25, 115-13.1

-Translation: Mahmoud Ahmed Abdulkadir: "Wasiya wa Mabanati" (poem, from Swahili to English), translated with Jasmin Mahazi, in: Wasafiri: Journal of Contemporary Writing, vol. 26/2, 49-50.

-African humanism and a case study from the Swahili coas, in: Claus Dierksmeier (ed.), Humanism and business ethics in intercultural perspective. New York: Palgrave McMillan, 246-265.

"Entwicklung‟ als Topos: Politische Ideologie und muslimische Selbstverortung im
postkolonialen Kenia", in: Hertha Däubler-Gmelin et al. (Afrika-Initiative, Otto-Suhr-Institut, FU-Berlin), Politik und Entwicklung in Afrika: aktuelle Debatten. Frankfurt: Peter Lang.

2010
- Muslim Politics in Postcolonial Kenya: Negotiating Knowledge on the Double-Periphery,
in: F. Osella and B. Soares (eds.), Islam, Politics, Anthropology, Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 72-90.

- Rez. Felicitas Becker, Becoming Muslim in Mainland Tanzania, 1890-2000, 2008, Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, in: Journal for Religion in Africa, 40:2 (2010), 227-228.

2009
- (ed. with Trevor H. J. Marchand): special issue on Knowledge, Expertise and the Transmission of Learning Africa, in: Africa, Journal of the International African Institute, vol. 79 no. 1.

- Knowledge and intellectual practice in a Swahili context: ‘Wisdom’ and the social dimensions of knowledge. In: Africa 79 (1), Edinburgh University Press, 148-167.

- Muslim politics in postcolonial Kenya: Negotiating knowledge on the double-periphery, in: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Special issue on anthropology of Muslim politics, edited by B. Soares and F. Osella.

2008
Can wisdom be taught? Kant, sage philosophy, and ethnographic reflections from the Swahili coast, in: M. Ferrari and G. Potworowski (eds), Teaching for Wisdom, Amsterdam: Springer.

- The persistence of myth: Cassirer and Anthropology, in: P. Bishop and R.H. Stevenson (eds), The Persistence of Myth, Leeds: Maney, 130-149.

2007
- Philosophising in Mombasa: knowledge, Islam and intellectual practice on the Swahili coast, Edinburgh University Press und International African Institute, 288 S.
Reviews

- Knowledge. Entry to the encyclopedia of Africa, in: John Middleton (ed.), Encyclopedia of Africa (revised second edition), New York, Scribner.

- (und Edward Simpson, eds): Struggling with history. Islam and cosmopolitanism in the western Indian Ocean, London, Hurst and New York, Columbia University Press, 400 S.
Rezension: H-Net Humanities and Social Science, Oktober 2010.

- (mit E. Simpson): Introduction: Cosmopolitanism contested: anthropology and history in the western Indian Ocean, 1-41.

- The uses of history: rhetorics of Muslim unity and difference on the Kenyan Swahili coast, in: Edward Simpson, Kai Kresse (eds.), Struggling with history: Islam and cosmopolitanism in the western Indian Ocean, London, Hurst, and New York, Columbia University Press, 223-260.

- Practising an anthropology of philosophy: general remarks and the Swahili context, in: Mark Harris (ed.), Ways of knowing: new approaches in the anthropology of experience and learning, Oxford, Berghahn, 42-63.

- Philosophie, ethnographisch gesehen: Dichter und Denker in Mombasa (eine Fallstudie zur Anthropologie der Philosophie), in: H. Paetzold and W. Schmied-Korwazik (eds.), Interkulturelle Philosophie, Weimar, Verlag der Bauhaus-Universität, 88-115.

- Notes towards an anthropology of philosophy, in: Ioanna Kucuradi (ed.), Proceedings of the world congress of philosophy, Istanbul 2003. Ankara, Philosophical Society of Turkey.

- (Rez.): Benjamin Soares, Islam and the prayer economy: history and authority in a Malian town,.Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press for the International African Institute, in: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute.

2006
- Debating maulidi: Ambiguities and Transformations of Muslim Identity along the Kenyan Swahili Coast, in: R. Loimeier and R. Seesemann (eds.), The Global Worlds of the Swahili. Interfaces of Islam, Identity and Space in 19th and 20th-Century East Africa, Berlin, Lit Verlag, 209-22.