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
Gulf
UAE
Oman
Arabian Peninsula
Pakistan
Indian Ocean Region
Iran
Afghanistan
Other
Africa (Sub-Saharan)
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
