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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
13th-18th Centuries
Andalusi Studies
Historiography
Islamic Thought
Medieval
Mediterranean Studies
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)