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"بحر من الديون" هو سيرة تاريخية وجغرافية تدرس أهمية المحيط الهندي وتاريخه الاقتصادي 🌊

"Science, Magic, and Philosophy in the Islamicate World" Join our panel at MESA Nov 12, 11:30 AM. Our languages: Swahili, Malay, Turkish, Arabic, and Persian. I'm presenting "Asking Sentient Trees: Arabian Translations of East African Magic and Swahili in the Omani Empire."

Happening in at 2:30 pm est.

"Slavery and Its Legacies in the Indian Ocean" Issue of Monsoon: Journal of the Indian Ocean Rim is out with an article from my current project: I Authored This Book in the Absence of My Slave: Enslaved East Africans and the Production of Occult Knowledge across the Omani Empire: read.dukeupress.edu/monsoon/articl…

"Imperialism and Occultism between Early Modern Arabia, India, and Mozambique," presenting my Ph.D. research at the "Connecting Imaginaries" workshop Asia Research Institute - NUS, 28 Nov 2024, 9:15 PM EST.

what a pleasure to find many friends and colleagues here in this list👇 historytoday.com/archive/review…

Join us tomorrow, Dec 6, for Day 1 of the two-day 'Intertwined Ecologies and Interconnected Histories: The Indian Ocean Rim' #symposium at The Africa Institute's auditorium (and online), concluding the 'Thinking the Archipelago' season. Free admission. theafricainstitute.org/institute-prog…

My essay on the pre-Islamic roots of Malay literature has just been published for a new exhibition at the Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia! Honoured to be in the company of some amazing historians like Annabel Gallop and Sumit Mandal

#NewPublication Mobile Manuscripts Arabic Learning across the Early Modern Western Indian Ocean Christopher D. Bahl, Cambridge Univ Pr 2025 cambridge.org/eg/universityp… #OpenAccess Author's PhD diss Sharing Arabic Manuscripts across the Western Indian Ocean eprints.soas.ac.uk/30302/

New paper by Iain Sinclair on the far-flung travels of the sixteenth century Tamil Buddhist yogī Buddhaguptanātha (b. 1514). Everything that is known about this figure derives from a biography authored by his one-time Tibetan disciple Tāra­nātha: journaloftibetanliterature.org/index.php/jtl/…

How did Muslims from East Africa, India, and Arabia address the challenges of colonial modernity & Islamic progress in Zanzibar? Join my conversation with Anne Bang as we explore "Zanzibari Muslim Moderns: Islamic Paths to Progress in the Interwar Period": newbooksnetwork.com/zanzibari-musl…

Chinese traders and explorers first reached the Maldives, an Indian Ocean archipelago, in the early 14th century. Explore this long history in Bin Yang's new book "Discovered but Forgotten: The Maldives in Chinese History, c. 1100-1620" Columbia University Press cup.columbia.edu/book/discovere…

The University of Utah Press and the Middle East Center are pleased to announce the launch of a new book series, Transregional Middle Easts: uofupress.com/series/Transre….

New Book+my chapter: “Genealogical History in the Persianate World” eds. Jo-Ann Gross and Daniel Beben. “This agenda-setting volume combines fascinating case studies from Hunza, Badakhshan, Bukhara,Fergana, Balochistan, the Gulf, and Qandahar,” Nile Green. bloomsbury.com/us/genealogica…

I'm excited to share that I will be defending my PhD dissertation, “An Enchanted Sea: Occultism, Empire, and Society in the Western Indian Ocean, 1450-1750,” on Wednesday, May 28, 10 am EST. For the abstract: nes.princeton.edu/people/ahmed-y…

#PhDone I am thankful and fortunate to have the support and encouragement of many who helped me reach this milestone. Thank you. I look forward to continuing this journey with you.

CFP: “Oceanic Crossroads: Bringing the Indian Ocean into Conversation with the Mediterranean” Workshop. The Mediterranean Seminar, with the collaboration and sponsorship of NYU Abu Dhabi, will be held from 8 & 9 December 2025 in Abu Dhabi: mailchi.mp/mediterraneans…

CFP: From Coast to Coast: Folklore and the Cultural Lives of the Western Indian Ocean. L’Orientale University of Naples, 20–21 Nov 2025. We invite papers on oral, performative, literary & material traditions: