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
13th-18th Centuries
African Studies
Environment
Gulf Studies
History Of Science
Iranian Studies
Islamic Law
South Asian Studies
World History
Geographic Areas of Interest
Afghanistan
Africa (Sub-Saharan)
Arabian Peninsula
Gulf
Indian Ocean Region
Iran
Oman
Other
Pakistan
UAE
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
