“Our Sultan must preserve His religion, just as you preserve your own”

This is a newly published article in the Journal of Early Modern History about the ways in which the Moroccan diplomat Ahmed al-Ghazzal defined Islamic international relations.

Divinely Guided Ambassadors - Ottoman and Moroccan Roots of Modern Diplomacy in the Eighteenth-Century Mediterranean

This is the front matter, abstract, TOC, and acknowledgements from my 2021 dissertation. It won the Princeton Near Eastern Studies Department’s Bayard and Cleveland Dodge Memorial Prize for best Phd dissertation.

Mawlāy Ismāʿīl b. Al-Sharīf Abū al-Naṣr (r. 1082-1139 / 1672-1727)

This is an encyclopedia entry I wrote for the Encyclopedia of Islam 3 on the Moroccan, Alawi sultan, Mawāy Ismā’īl (r. 1082-1139 / 1672-1727).

Mawlāy al-Rashīd b. Al-Sharīf b. ʿAlī (r. 1069-82 / 1659-72)

This is an encyclopedia entry I wrote for the Encyclopedia of Islam 3 on the Moroccan, Alawi sultan, Mawlāy al-Rashīd (r. 1069-82 / 1659-72).

Jazīrat al-Maghrib - North Africa as an Island?

An introduction to a special section of The Journal of North African Studies that features publications from scholars across the disciplines inquiring what it means to think of North Africa through the analytical category of Island Studies. The section features articles from Sabahat Adil, Silvia Marsans-Sakly, Ann Shafer, and Isabella Alexander.