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Fahad Bishara
University of Virginia
Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
University of Virginia
Corcoran Department of History
Charlottesville VA 22903
United States
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
Islamic Law
Political Economy
South Asian Studies
Gulf Studies
World History
African Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Gulf
Indian Ocean Region
Islamic World
Specialties
Legal And Economic History Of The Indian Ocean
Legal History Of The Islamic World
Dhow Cultures Of The Indian Ocean
Languages
Arabic (native)
Swahili (intermediate)
Gujarati (elementary)
French (elementary)
Education
PhD | 2012 | History | Duke University
MA | 2005 | Gulf Studies | University of Exeter
BA | 2004 | Intl Rltns | U of S Calif
Abstracts
The Arabian Frontiers of British Indian Law: Empire and the Legal Imaginary in the Writings of Salem Al-'Arayyedh Merchant-Princes and Proto-States: Life in Motion in the Gulf and Indian Ocean, c. 1850-1920 Paper Routes: Inscribing Law and Commerce across the 19th-Century Indian Ocean The Most Enduring Obligation: Debt, Personhood and Commerce in the Nineteenth-Century Western Indian Ocean “No Country but the Sea”: Dhows, Empire, and the Domestication of International Law, 1890-1905