Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
ABOUT
Dr Naim is a Visiting Assistant Professor of modern Middle East history at Western Washington University. He received his PhD in Middle East history from the University of California at Davis in 2019. In his research, Dr. Naim focuses on Islamic nationalism, colonialism, post-colonial theories, and comparative intellectual history of the Ottoman Empire, Afghanistan, and Central Asia. He has a command of various languages, including Persian (Dari), Turkish (modern and Ottoman Turkish), Arabic, Pashto,Uzbek, German, and English. At Western Washington University, he teaches introduction to Islamic civilization, Modern Middle East, Palestine, Zionism, and Israel, and history of the Ottoman world.
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
Middle East/Near East Studies
State Formation
19th-21st Centuries
Ottoman Studies
Southeast Asian Studies
Turkish Studies
Nationalism
World History
Geographic Areas of Interest
Afghanistan
Ottoman Empire
Iran
Turkey
Tajikistan
Specialties
Nationalism, Modernity And Islam
Post-Colonialism
Afghanistan And Ottoman Empire
Languages
Dari (native)
German (intermediate)
Arabic (intermediate)
Ottoman (advanced)
Uzbek (advanced)
Pashto (native)
Turkish (advanced)
Education
PhD
| 2019
| History
| Uc Davis
Abstracts
The Ottoman Intelligentsia and the Genesis of the Afghan Mashrūtah Movement
