التعليم :
شهادة الدكتوراه في التاريخ الأفريقي والإسلامي:
جامعة بنسلفانيا, فيلادلفيا 1996.
ماجستير الدراسات الأفريقية ، جامعة أوهايو ، أثينا ، 1990.
بكالوريوس التاريخ ، جامعة أوهايو ، أثينا ، 1986.
تركيز درجة الدراسات العليا في أفريقيا والشرق الأوسط الحديث.
من منشوراته ( باللغة الاصلية ) :
كتاب علمي أو محرر :
1 - Renewers of the Age: Holy Men and Social Discourse in Colonial Benaadir
2 - The Transmission of Learning in Islamic Africa
مقالات :
“Shaykh Abdullahi al-Qutbi and the pious believer'sdilemma: local moral guidance in an age of global Islamic reform” in Journal of Eastern African Studies, Special Issue, Preachers, Pirates and Piety v. 22 n.3 (2015)
“Islam in Africa/Africans and Islam” The Journal of African History / Volume 55 / Issue 01 / March 2014, pp 17–26
“A Leading Muslim of Aden: Personal Trajectories, Imperial Networks and the Construction of Community in Colonial Aden” Global Islam in the Age of Steam and Print, 1850-1930, James Gelvin and Nile Green eds. (Berkeley: University of California Press, January 2014)
“Salafi Transformations: Aden and the changing voices of religious reform in the inter-war Indian Ocean,” International Journal of Middle East Studies (v. 44, Winter 2012.)
“The Death of Shaykh Uways,” a critical translation in Tales of the Friends of God, John Renard, ed. (Berkley: University of California Press, 2009)
“Respectable Citizens” of Shaykh Uthman: Religious Discourse, Translocality and the Construction of Local Contexts in Colonial Aden,” in Struggling with History: Islam and Cosmopolitanism in the Western Indian Ocean, Kai Kresse and Edward Simpson eds. (London/ New York: Hurst/Columbia University Press, 2008)
“The Adventures of Abū Ḥārith: Muslim Travel Writing and Navigating Modernity in Colonial East Africa” in The Transmission of Learning in Islamic Africa, Scott S. Reese ed. (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2004)
"The Arabic Writings of Somalia," in The Islamic Writings of Eastern Africa Arabic Literature in Africa v.III. (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2003)
“Ziyara in the Horn of Africa,” The Encyclopaedia of Islam v. XI Leiden: Brill, 2002 pp.538-539.
“The Best of Guides: Poetry and Reformist Discourse in the Majmu’at al-Qasa’id” The Journal of African Cultural Studies London: School of Oriental and African Studies (summer 2001) pp. 49-68.
“Urban Woes and Pious Remedies: Sufism in the Nineteenth Century Benaadir (Somalia)” in Africa Today v.43 n.3-4 1999 pp. 169-194.
“Tales which persist on the Tongue: Arabic literacy and the
definition of communal boundaries in Sharif Aydrus’ Bughayt al-Amal” in Sudanic Africa v. 9, 1998 pp.1-17 (may be read on-line at http://www.hf.uib.no/i/smi/sa/sahome.html)
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