Development Studies Seminars 2025 | Diálogo sobre o Islão e Política em Moçambique
The Development Studies Seminars are an initiative that, since 1991, promotes research carried out in the areas of study of the Masters in Development and International Cooperation (MCDI) of ISEG and the PhD Programme in Development Studies of the University of Lisbon
Development Studies Seminars 2025
Topic: Diálogo sobre o Islão e Política em Moçambique (Dialogue on Islam and Politics in Mozambique)
On the occasion of the launch of the book Jihad Inevitável? Muçulmanos e Política em Moçambique depois da Independência (Inevitable Jihad? Muslims and Politics in Mozambique after Independence) (Tempos e Espaços Africanos series, Colibri Publishing, 2025)
Book author and speaker of the session: Dr Éric Morier-Genoud (Queen’s University Belfast, UK)
Speaker: Dr Sandra Araújo (ICS, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)
Moderation: Dr Isabel Castro Henriques (CEsA/ISEG RESEARCH/ISEG, Portugal), and Dr Joana Pereira Leite (CEsA/ISEG RESEARCH/ISEG, Portugal)
Date: 5 June 2025 (Thursday)
Hour: 6 p.m. – 8 p.m.
Venue: Auditorium 3, 2nd Floor Quelhas Building, ISEG (Access by Rua do Quelhas 6 1200-731, Lisbon, Portugal)
Free admission, in person event. Lecture in Portuguese.
About the speaker
Eric Morier-Genoud‘s research interests focus on history, religion, and politics in Africa, the Portuguese-speaking world and Europe. He has published books on the history of pre-colonial Mozambique, the history of Apartheid in South Africa and Switzerland, the history of the Roman Catholic church and the history of Islam in Mozambique. He presently works on the jihadi insurgency in northern Mozambique, on Irish missionaries in the world, and the history of Africans in Belfast.
He has undertaken conflict resolution work in the 2010s and many consultancies, and on that basis he intervenes regularly in media such as The Times, BBC World Service, Le Monde, Público, Vatican News, Voice of America, Rádio Portugal, Swedish Radio, Swiss National Radio, Radio Al Aan, etc.
Sandra Araújo holds a PhD in Anthropology completed at Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas – Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Currently, she is a Junior Researcher at the Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa (2021.03337.CEECIND/CP1696/CT0011. Her research project, Intelligence and Empire in the Portuguese Late Colonial Period, 1961-1975: Comparisons, Connections and Epistemes, focuses on the Serviços de Centralização e Coordenação de Informações (Intelligence Centralization and Coordination Services) and aims at examining the historical trajectory of this intelligence service branches’ within the framework of Portuguese imperial politics and administration, as well as to assess their part during the liberation wars. In 2022, she was an awardee of the First Book Grant competition by the Independent Social Research Foundation, with the project Spying on Muslims in Colonial Mozambique, 1964-74, which explores how Portuguese intelligence services sought to exploit Muslim communities to back its counter-insurgent war during the liberation struggle in colonial Mozambique. For the duration of the award, she was a visiting researcher at the Global History and Culture Centre at the University of Warwick.
About Tempos e Espaços Africanos series
This collection encompasses the spaces and times understood as two pillars of the creation, continuity, and transformation of African societies. The close and constant link between these two conceptual parameters makes it possible to grasp Africa, which, through this lens, can reclaim both its history and its capacity to imagine and shape its futures. The collection is coordinated by Professors Isabel Castro Henriques and Joana Pereira Leite, researchers at CEsA.
A Economia de África (ed. Vulgata)
Year: 1999
Author: Philippe Hugon
Empresas e Empresários Africanos (ed. Vulgata)
Year: 2000
Authors: Stephen Ellis & Yves-A. Fauré (dir.)
Álcool e Escravos: o comércio luso-brasileiro do álcool em Mpinda, Luanda e Benguela durante o tráfico transatlântico de escravos (c. 1480-1830) e o seu impacto nas sociedades da África dentral Ocidental (ed. Vulgata)
Year: 2002
Author: José C. Curto
Novas Relações com África: que perspectivas? (ed. Vulgata)
Year: 2003
Author: Isabel Castro Henriques (coord.)
África Negra. História e Civilizações – até ao século XVIII, Tomo I (ed. Vulgata)
Year: 2003
Author: Elikia M’Bokolo
O Trabalho Dignifica o Homem. Estratégias de sobrevivência em Luanda (ed. Colibri)
Year: Não informado
Author: Cristina Udelsmann Rodrigues
África Negra. História e Civilizações – Do século XIX aos nossos dias, Tomo II (ed. Colibri)
Year: 2007
Author: Elikia M’Bokolo
Subúrbios de Luanda e Maputo, 1ª edição (ed. Colibri)
Year: 2007
Authors: Jochen Oppenheimer & Isabel Raposo (coords.) Filipe Amado, Ana Bénard da Costa, Nuno Cunha, Carlos M. Lopes, Ramos Muanamoha, Carlos Sangreman, Mário Ribeiro, Cristina Rodrigues, Cristina Salvador, Gerhard Seibert
Os Ismailis de Moçambique: Vida económica no tempo colonial
Year: 2012
Authors: Joana Pereira Leite e Nicole Khouri
A Mulher em África – Vozes de uma margem sempre presente (ed. Colibri)
Year: 2018
Authors: Inocência Mata e Laura Cavalcante Padilha (org.)
Jihad Inevitável? Muçulmanos e Política em Moçambique depois da Independência(ed. Colibri)
Year: 2025
Author: Eric Morier-Genoud
Author: CEsA Communication (comunicacao@cesa.iseg.ulisboa.pt)
Images: CEsA/Reproduction
