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Ahmed Almaazmi
Princeton University
Occupation
Graduate Student (Doctoral)
ABOUT
My dissertation “An Enchanted Sea: The Occult Sciences in the Early Modern Indian Ocean World,” traces the connected history of the occult sciences in the Western Indian Ocean, told through intellectual projects entwined with the expansion of the Omani Empires and their diasporic communities. My dissertation is the first to analyze how environmental knowledge, occult technologies, legal thought, and slavery intersected and were articulated in everyday life in the Arabian Peninsula, the Persianate Cosmopolis, and East Africa.
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
Gulf Studies
Iranian Studies
History Of Science
Islamic Law
Environment
13th-18th Centuries
African Studies
South Asian Studies
World History
Geographic Areas of Interest
Afghanistan
Africa (Sub-Saharan)
Arabian Peninsula
Gulf
Indian Ocean Region
Iran
Oman
Other
Pakistan
UAE
Specialties
My Dissertation “An Enchanted Sea: The Occult Sciences In The Early Modern Indian Ocean World."
Languages
Arabic (native)
English (fluent)
Persian (advanced)
Urdu (advanced)
Kurdish (elementary)
Swahili (intermediate)
Education
MA | 2021 | NES | Princeton University
BA | 2015 | International Studies | Zayed University
Abstracts
Belonging Across the Omani Sea: De-Soldiering Baloch History in the Arabian Peninsula Oman as an Empire: Transoceanic Mobilites and Legacies in the Western Indian Ocean The Environmental Meaning of the Occult in the Western Indian Ocean Asking Sentient Trees: Arabian Translations of East African Magic and Swahili Language in the Omani Empire