AbdoolKarim Vakil
Biography
AbdoolKarim Vakil is Lecturer in Contemporary Portuguese History, at the Department of Portuguese & Brazilian Studies, King's College, University of London. He has researched and published on Portuguese intellectual and cultural history, cultural politics, and national identity. He is currently researching representations of Islam and Muslims in the Portuguese cultural imaginary since the 18th century; Portuguese colonial policy and colonial relations with Muslim communities in the 19th and 20th centuries; and the associational history of the contemporary Muslim communities in Portugal (a synthesis of which has recently been published in the authoritative Dicionário Temático de Lusofonia, 2005). Recent publications include: "Memória Arquivada: Fernando Amaro Monteiro, o Islão e a Política Colonial em Moçambique" (co-author with Fernando Amaro Monteiro, 2008, forthcoming); "Vasco da Gama", in S. Sayyid, et al (org.), A Postcolonial People: South Asians in Britain (Hurst, 2006); "Questões Inacabadas: colonialismo, Islão e Portugalidade", in Ribeiro and Ferreira (orgs.), Fantasmas e Fantasias Imperiais no Imaginário Português Contemporâneo (Campo das Letras, 2003); and "Pensar o Islão: questões coloniais, interrogações pós-coloniais", Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais, 69 (2004).