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Mohamad Ballan
Stony Brook University, SUNY
Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
655 Belle Terre Road
Apt. 36
Port Jefferson NY 11777
United States
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
Andalusi Studies
Islamic Thought
Medieval
Mediterranean Studies
13th-18th Centuries
Historiography
Geographic Areas of Interest
Spain
Morocco
Ottoman Empire
Specialties
Frontiers/Borderlands
Medieval And Early Modern Mediterranean
Intellectual History
Languages
Arabic (fluent)
English (native)
Spanish (advanced)
French (intermediate)
Latin (advanced)
Education
PhD | 2019 | History | University of Chicago
MA | 2010 | Social Sciences | University of Chicago
BA | 2008 | History | University of British Columbia
Abstracts
“Zafadola Amicus Mei”: Vassalage, Friendship and the Construction of Imperial Sovereignty in the Chronica Adefonsi Imperatoris (ca. 1148) The 1501 Hispano-Muslim Qasida to Sultan Bayezid II: A Reconsideration Sectarianism and Violence in Zirid Ifriqiyah: A Reinterpretation of the Massacres of 407/1016 “The Last of the Himyarites”: Pre-Islamic Genealogy and Royal Legitimacy in the Nasrid Kingdom of Granada (1238–1492)