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Youssef Ben Ismail
Columbia University
Occupation
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Contact
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Colonialism
Ottoman Studies
Maghreb Studies
Identity/Representation
Mediterranean Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Maghreb
Ottoman Empire
Tunisia
Mediterranean Countries
Specialties
History Of North Africa
Ottoman And Mediterranean Studies
Legal History
Languages
Arabic (native)
French (native)
Chinese (advanced)
Italian (advanced)
Turkish (advanced)
Ottoman (advanced)
Education
PhD | 2021 | NELC | Harvard University
MA | 2014 | Center for Middle Eastern Studies | Harvard University
BA | 2012 | Political Science, History | Sciences Po Paris
Abstracts
Good ʿulamaʾ’ and ‘Bad ʿulamaʾ: History (re-)Writing as Identity Making in Post-Colonial Tunisia Islam modernism, ethical crisis and the Muslim sense of commonality: a reading of al-Majalla al-Zaytuniyya in 1930s Tunisia Fez Makers of the Empire: the everyday life of the Tunisian fesciler in fin-de-siècle Istanbul Tunisians between French protection and Ottoman nationality (1881-1914) On the Nature of Ottoman Caliphal Authority in the Maghrib A Theory of Provincial Autonomy in the Late Ottoman Empire