In her new book, Islamic Law, Gender and Social Change in Post-Abolition Zanzibar (Cambridge University Press, 2015), Elke Stockreiter analyzes the transformation of Zanzibar’s Islamic judiciary under British colonial rule from 1890 to 1963. In particular, she explores the ways in which socially marginalized groups—women and former slaves, for example—managed to engage Islamic courts to pursue their own diverse interests and agendas. Prof. Stockreiter’s work at AU has already been the subject of one feature article. Now, in this video interview, fellow AU History Dept. professor Justin Jacobs speaks with Stockreiter about some of the more comparative and thematic aspects of her research.