Dr. Amal Ghazal

Assistant Professor

Office: 2171 McCain Arts & Social Science Building Office Hours: Wednesdays: 1:00-3:00  Email: amal.ghazal@dal.ca Tel: 902-494-1508 (v) 902-494-3349 (fax)

TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS

Ottoman history, Modern Middle East, North Africa, Islam in Saharan and sub-Saharan Africa

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Late Ottoman history in the Arab provinces, Nationalism in the Arab world, Islamic movements, Sufism, Salafism, Arab intellectuals, Intellectual networks, Arabic Press, Slavery, Kharijism, Ibadism, Omani rule in East in East Africa and Islam in West Africa  

PUBLICATIONS

Books

Islamic Reform and Arab Nationalism:  Expanding the Crescent from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean (1880s-1930s).  (Forthcoming, Routledge)

Articles and Book Chapters

"The Other Frontiers of Arab Nationalism:  Ibadis, Berbers and the Arabist-Salafi Press in the Interwar Period", International Journal of Middle East Studies 42 (2010): 105-122. 

“Debating Slavery and Abolition in the Arab Middle East", In Islalm,Slavery and Diaspora. Behnaz A. Mirzai, Ismael Musah Montana and Paul E. Lovejoy (eds.), (Trenton NJ:  Africa World Press, 2009): 139-153.

“Seeking Common Ground: Salafism and Islamic Reform in Modern Ibadi Thought.” The Bulletin for the Royal Institute of Inter-Faith Studies 7, no.1 (Spring/Summer 2005): 119-141.

“The Other ‘Andalus’: The Omani Elite in Zanzibar and the Making of an Identity, 1880s-1930s." MIT-Electronic Journal of Middle East Studies 5 (Fall 2005): 43-58.

“Sufism, Ijtihad and Modernity, Yusuf al-Nabhani in the Age of ‘Abd al-Hamid II.” Archivum Ottomanicum 19 (2001): 239-272.

“Power, Arabism, and Islam: The Writings of Muhib al-Din al-Khatib in al-Fath.” Past Imperfect 6 (1997): 133-149.  

Editorials

(Guest Editor). “Kharijism and Ibadism: The Quest for an Integrative Approach to Islamic History,” The Bulletin for the Royal Institute of Inter-Faith Studies 7, no.1 (Spring/Summer 2005): 1-6.

(Guest Editor). “Frontier Geography and Boundless History. Islam and Arabs in East Africa: A fusion of identities, networks and encounters.” MIT-Electronic Journal of Middle East Studies 5 (Fall 2005): 6-8.

(co-Editor). “The Sixth War: Israel’s Invasion of Lebanon,” MIT-Electronic Journal of Middle East Studies 6 (Summer 2006): 6-8.  

Commentaries and News Analysis

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RECENT GRANTS AND AWARDS

Dalhousie Research Development Fund, 2006-2007 and 2007-2008

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Post-doctoral Fellowship, January 2005-June 2006.  Dalhousie Research Development Fund, 2006-2007 and 2007-2008

University of Alberta Dissertation Fellowship, University of Alberta, Edmonton. May 2003-April 2004

Margaret Brine Scholarship, Canadian Federation of University Women, Edmonton. May 2003

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Fellowship, 1999-2002

COURSES OFFERED 2009 - 2010