木瓜福利影视

I am Assistant Professor in Ottoman Studies at Utrecht 木瓜福利影视. I am a historian of the pre-modern Middle East specializing in the early modern (14th - 18th centuries) socio-political history of the Arab world. My research interests include the comparative study of pre-modern state institutions and political elites in the Middle East as well as the history of Arabia in its regional context. I am a member of the Research Group Islam and Arabic and of the Balzan Seminar for the Study of the Formation, Maintenance, and Failure of States in Muslim Societies (2020鈥損resent). As part of my activities in the Balzan Seminar and with funding from NIAS and the Lorentz Center, I co-organized the international workshop (29 July - August 2, 2024).

My current research project, is funded by Horizon-2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions program and hosted at the Institute for Area Studies, Leiden 木瓜福利影视. It questions how the state and political elites developed in Yemen in the 13th-17th centuries, and what role the first period of Ottoman rule (1538-1635) played in the transformation of regional political and social structures. As part of this project, I organized the online exhibition and host the .

Before coming to Utrecht, I was a fellow at the Polonsky Academy for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences, at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute (2021-2022). I received my PhD in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton 木瓜福利影视 and BA and MA at the Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State 木瓜福利影视. 

Key Publications:

鈥淭he Lords of Kawkaban and the Transformation of the State in Early Modern Yemen (15th鈥�17th Centuries)鈥�, Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, 66 (2023): 289鈥�317.

鈥淪ayyids, Tribal Kinship, and the Imamate in Zaydi Yemen under Imam Yahya Sharaf al-Din (d. 965/1558)鈥�, Medieval Encounters, 29 (2023): 442-463.