About Ahmed Almaazmi

Ahmed Yaqoub AlMaazmi is a Ph.D. candidate at Princeton University. His research focuses on the intersection of law, the occult sciences, and the environment across the Western Indian Ocean. He can be reached by email at almaazmi@princeton.edu or on Twitter @Ahmed_Yaqoub. Listeners’ feedback, questions, and book suggestions are most welcome.

Ahmed Yaqoub AlMaazmi is a Ph.D. candidate at Princeton University. His research focuses on the intersection of law, the occult sciences, and the environment across the Western Indian Ocean. He can be reached by email at almaazmi@princeton.edu or on Twitter @Ahmed_Yaqoub. Listeners’ feedback, questions, and book suggestions are most welcome.

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NBN Episodes hosted by Ahmed:

Arang Keshavarzian, "Making Space for the Gulf: Histories of Regionalism and the Middle East" (Stanford UP, 2024)

July 21, 2024

Making Space for the Gulf

Arang Keshavarzian
Hosted by Ahmed Almaazmi

The Persian Gulf has long been a contested space--an object of imperial ambitions, national antagonisms, and migratory dreams. The roots of these cont…

Timothy Grieve-Carlson, "American Aurora: Environment and Apocalypse in the Life of Johannes Kelpius" (Oxford UP, 2024)

July 6, 2024

American Aurora

Timothy Grieve-Carlson
Hosted by Ahmed Almaazmi

American Aurora: Environment and Apocalypse in the Life of Johannes Kelpius (Oxford UP, 2024) explores the impact of climate change on early modern ra…

Edward A. Alpers and Thomas F. McDow, "A Primer for Teaching Indian Ocean World History: Ten Design Principles" (Duke UP, 2024)

June 25, 2024

A Primer for Teaching Indian Ocean World History

Edward A. Alpers and Thomas F. McDow
Hosted by Ahmed Almaazmi

A Primer for Teaching Indian Ocean World History: Ten Design Principles (Duke UP, 2024) is a guide for college and high school educators who are teach…

Rishad Choudhury, "Hajj Across Empires: Pilgrimage and Political Culture After the Mughals, 1739-1857" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

January 14, 2024

Hajj Across Empires

Rishad Choudhury
Hosted by Ahmed Almaazmi

In Hajj Across Empires: Pilgrimage and Political Culture After the Mughals, 1739-1857 (Cambridge UP, 2023), Rishad Choudhury presents a new history of…

David S. Powers and Eric Tagliacozzo, "Islamic Ecumene: Comparing Muslim Societies" (Cornell UP, 2023)

December 16, 2023

Islamic Ecumene

David S. Powers and Eric Tagliacozzo
Hosted by Ahmed Almaazmi

The essays in Islamic Ecumene: Comparing Muslim Societies (Cornell UP, 2023) address the ways in which Muslims from Morocco to Indonesia and from sub-…

Xavier Luffin, "Another Look at Congolese History: Arabic and Swahili Documents in the Belgian Archives" (Académie Royale des Sciences d’Outre-Mer, 2020)

December 9, 2023

Another Look at Congolese History

Xavier Luffin
Hosted by Ahmed Almaazmi

Another Look at Congolese History: Arabic and Swahili Documents in the Belgian Archives (Académie Royale des Sciences d’Outre-Mer, 2020), edited by Xa…

Nur Sobers-Khan et al., "Beyond Colonial Rupture: Print Culture and the Emergence of Muslim Modernity in Nineteenth-Century South Asia" (2023)

December 4, 2023

Beyond Colonial Rupture

Nur Sobers-Khan, Layli Uddin, and Priyanka Basu
Hosted by Ahmed Almaazmi

Scholarly discussions on Islam in print have focused predominantly on the role of Urdu in the development of North Indian Muslim publics (Dubrow, 2018…

Nader Kadhem, "Africanism: Blacks in the Medieval Arab Imaginary" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2023)

November 25, 2023

Africanism

Nader Kadhem
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Anti-blackness has until recently been a taboo topic within Arab society. This began to change when Nader Kadhem, a prominent Arab and Muslim thinker …

Laleh Khalili, "Corporeal Life of Seafaring" (MACK, 2023)

November 11, 2023

Corporeal Life of Seafaring

Laleh Khalili
Hosted by Ahmed Almaazmi

The body of the seafarer is a fulcrum upon which global systems of power, longstanding maritime traditions, and gendered and racialised pressures all …

James White, "Persian and Arabic Literary Communities in the Seventeenth Century: Migrant Poets between Arabia, Iran and India" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

October 29, 2023

Persian and Arabic Literary Communities in the Seventeenth Century

James White
Hosted by Ahmed Almaazmi

A wealth of scholarship has highlighted how commercial, political and religious networks expanded across the Arabian Sea during the seventeenth centur…

Brian Ulrich, "The Medieval Persian Gulf" (ARC Humanities Press, 2023)

September 27, 2023

The Medieval Persian Gulf

Brian Ulrich
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The Persian Gulf today is home to multiple cosmopolitan urban hubs of globalization. This did not start with the discovery of oil. The Medieval Persia…

Stefan Helmreich, "A Book of Waves" (Duke UP, 2023)

September 16, 2023

A Book of Waves

Stefan Helmreich
Hosted by Ahmed Almaazmi

In A Book of Waves (Duke UP, 2023), Stefan Helmreich examines ocean waves as forms of media that carry ecological, geopolitical, and climatological ne…

Divya Cherian, "The Owl and the Occult: Popular Politics and Social Liminality in Early Modern South Asia" (2023)

September 9, 2023

The Owl and the Occult

Divya Cherian
Hosted by Ahmed Almaazmi

Today I talked to Divya Cherian about her article "The Owl and the Occult: Popular Politics and Social Liminality in Early Modern South Asia" publishe…

Kalyani Ramnath, "Boats in a Storm: Law, Migration, and Decolonization in South and Southeast Asia, 1942-1962" (Stanford UP, 2023)

August 27, 2023

Boats in a Storm

Kalyani Ramnath
Hosted by Ahmed Almaazmi

For more than a century before World War II, traders, merchants, financiers, and laborers steadily moved between places on the Indian Ocean, trading g…

Lucia Carminati. "Seeking Bread and Fortune in Port Said: Labor Migration and the Making of the Suez Canal, 1859-1906" (U California Press, 2023)

August 24, 2023

Seeking Bread and Fortune in Port Said

Lucia Carminati
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Lucia Carminati's book Seeking Bread and Fortune in Port Said: Labor Migration and the Making of the Suez Canal, 1859-1906 (U California Press, 2023) …

Christopher D. Bahl and Stefan Hanß, "Scribal Practice and the Global Cultures of Colophons, 1400–1800" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)

August 16, 2023

Scribal Practice and the Global Cultures of Colophons, 1400–1800

Christopher D. Bahl and Stefan Hanß
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Scribal Practice and the Global Cultures of Colophons, 1400–1800 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) is the first to chart the global diversity of colophons be…

Steve Mentz, "An Introduction to the Blue Humanities" (Routledge, 2023)

July 27, 2023

An Introduction to the Blue Humanities

Steve Mentz
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An Introduction to the Blue Humanities (Routledge, 2023) is the first textbook to explore the many ways humans engage with water, utilizing literary, …

Erin Pettigrew, "Invoking the Invisible in the Sahara: Islam, Spiritual Mediation, and Social Change" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

July 23, 2023

Invoking the Invisible in the Sahara

Erin Pettigrew
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In Invoking the Invisible in the Sahara: Islam, Spiritual Mediation, and Social Change (Cambridge UP, 2023), Erin Pettigrew utilizes invisible forces …

Alan Mikhail, "My Egypt Archive" (Yale UP, 2023)

July 14, 2023

My Egypt Archive

Alan Mikhail
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A prominent historian provides an engaging on-the-ground account of the everyday authoritarianism that produced the Arab Spring in Egypt "A visceral a…

Hassan S. Khalilieh, "Islamic Law of the Sea: Freedom of Navigation and Passage Rights in Islamic Thought" (Cambridge UP, 2019)

July 12, 2023

Islamic Law of the Sea

Hassan S. Khalilieh
Hosted by Ahmed Almaazmi

The doctrine of the modern law of the sea is commonly believed to have developed in Renaissance Europe. The role of Islamic law of the sea and customa…

Liana Saif et al., "Islamicate Occult Sciences in Theory and Practice" (Brill, 2020)

July 10, 2023

Islamicate Occult Sciences in Theory and Practice

Liana Saif, Francesca Leoni, and Matthew Melvin-Koushki
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Islamicate Occult Sciences in Theory and Practice (Brill, 2020) brings together the latest research on Islamic occult sciences from a variety of disci…

Radhika Seshan and Ryuto Shimada, "Connecting the Indian Ocean World: Across Sea and Land" (Routledge, 2023)

July 2, 2023

Connecting the Indian Ocean World

Radhika Seshan and Ryuto Shimada
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The Indian Ocean world has a rich history of socio-economic and cultural exchanges across time and space. Connecting the Indian Ocean World Across Sea…

Marielle Risse, "Houseways in Southern Oman" (Routledge, 2022)

June 15, 2023

Houseways in Southern Oman

Marielle Risse
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Houseways in Southern Oman (Routledge, 2022) explores how houses are created, maintained and conceptualized in southern Oman. Based on long-term resea…

Rob Marchant, "East Africa’s Human Environment Interactions: Historical Perspectives for a Sustainable Future" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)

June 6, 2023

East Africa’s Human Environment Interactions

Rob Marchant
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East Africa’s Human Environment Interactions: Historical Perspectives for a Sustainable Future (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) is an ambitious integration …