Yusuf 脺nal (Ph.D., Emory 木瓜福利影视) is a historian of the early modern and modern Middle East. His research focuses on sectarianism, violence, and the development of legal discourse. His research integrates global history, sensory and emotional history, law, and religious studies. His work has been supported by grants and fellowships from Fulbright, the Laney Graduate School, Yale Law School, and the Dutch Research Council (NWO).
His scholarly contributions have been published by the Indiana and Edinburgh 木瓜福利影视 presses and translated into languages such as Russian, Turkish, and Arabic. Additionally, his work has been featured in reports from institutions like the American Foreign Policy Council, Hudson Institute, and Brookings Institution.
As a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Yusuf is contributing to the project that examines the sensory history of early modern and modern Islam. He is co-editing the Handbook of Islamic Sensory History, Vol. III, focusing on the Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals (c. 1500-1900).
Before joining his current position, Yusuf served as an associate research scholar at the Abdallah S. Kamel Center for the Study of Islamic Law and Civilization at Yale Law School.