Holger Weiss (PhD 1997, University of Helsinki) is Professor of general history at Åbo Akademi University, Finland, and Guest Professor of history at Dalarna University, Sweden (since 2015). His research focuses on Global history (Entanglements and spaces in the early modern Atlantic world with a special focus on the Danish possessions on the Gold Coast and the Swedish colony of Saint Barthélemy in the Caribbean), West African environmental history (with a special focus on Ghana), and Islamic Studies (with a special focus on Islam in Ghana).
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On these topics Holger has published the following monographs and anthologies:
- Banga – Banga. Stress und Krisen im Hausaland (Nord-Nigeria) im 19. Jahrhundert (LIT-Verlag 1995), Babban Yunwa. Hunger und Gesellschaft in Nord-Nigeria und den Nachbarregionen in der frühen Kolonialzeit. Unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der späten vorkolonialen Verhältnisse und der Einwirkung der Kolonialmächte (Suomen Historiallinen Seura 1997)
- (ed.) Social Welfare in Muslim Societies in Africa (Nordic Africa Institute 2002)
- Obligatory Almsgiving: An Inquiry into Zakât in the Pre-colonial Bilād as-Sūdān (Finnish Oriental Society 2003), (ed. together with Michael Broening) Politischer Islam in Westafrika. Eine Bestandsaufnahme (Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung und LIT-Verlag 2006)
- Begging and Almsgiving in Ghana: Muslim Positions towards Poverty and Distress (Nordiska Afrikainstitutet 2007)
- Between Accommodation and Revivalism: Muslims, the State and Society in Ghana from the Precolonial to the Postcolonial Era (Finnish Oriental Society 2008)
- (ed.), Atlantiska religiösa nätverk. Transoceana kontakter, trossamfund och den enskilda individen i skuggan av slavhandeln [Atlantic Religious Networks: Transoceanic contacts, religious communities and the individual in the shadow of the slave trade] (Nya Doxa 2010)
- Framing a Radical African Atlantic. African American Agency, West African Intellectuals and the International Trade Union of Negro Workers (Brill 2014)
- (ed.) Ports of Globalisation, Places of Creolisation: Nordic Possessions in the Atlantic World during the Era of the Slave Trade (Brill 2015)
- Slavhandel och slaveri under svensk flagg: Koloniala drömmar och verklighet i Afrika och Karibien 1770–1847 [Slave trade and slavery under the Swedish flag: Colonial dreams and reality in Africa and the Caribbean 1770–1847] (Svenska Litteratursällskapet i Finland, 2016)
- (ed.), International Communism and Transnational Solidarity: Radical Networks, Mass Movements and Global Politics, 1919–1939 (Brill 2017).