MiranPublications

Red Sea Citizens: Cosmopolitan Society and Cultural Change in Massawa (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009).

Guest Editor. Space, Mobility, and Translocal Connections across the Red Sea Area since 1500. Special Issue of Northeast African Studies 12 (1) 2012.

“From Bondage to Freedom on the Red Sea Coast: Manumitted Slaves in Egyptian Massawa, 1873-1885.”Slavery & Abolition. (forthcoming)

“Guest Editor’s Introduction: Space, Mobility, and Translocal Connections across the Red Sea Area since 1500”, Northeast African Studies 12 (1) 2012, pp. ix-xxvi.

“Red Sea translocals: Hadrami migration, entrepreneurship, and strategies of integration in Eritrea, 1840s-1970s.” Northeast African Studies 12 (1) 2012, pp. 129-168.

“Constructing and deconstructing the Tigre frontier space in the long nineteenth century,” In Gianfrancesco Lusini (ed.) History and Language of the Tigre-Speaking Peoples «Studi Africanistici. Serie Etiopica» 8 (Napoli: Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”, 2010), pp. 33-50.

“Endowing Property and Edifying Power in a Red Sea Port: Waqf, Arab Migrant Entrepreneurs, and Urban Authority in Massawa, 1860s-1880s,” International Journal of African Historical Studies 42 (2) 2009, pp. 151-178.

“Power without Pashas: the anatomy of Na’ib autonomy in Ottoman Eritrea (17th-19th c.),” Eritrean Studies Review 5 (1) 2007, pp. 33-88 (special issue on pre-colonial Eritrea edited by Bairu Tafla).

“A historical overview of Islam in Eritrea,” Die Welt des Islams 45 (2) 2005, pp. 177-215. [Republished in an anthology: Andrew Rippin (ed.), World Islam: Critical Concepts in Islamic Studies, Volume III. (London and New York: Routledge, 2008), pp. 195-224.]

“The Islamic and related writings of Eritrea,” In R. S. O’Fahey and J. O. Hunwick (eds.), Arabic Literature of Africa, Volume 13, III, Fascicle A. The Writings of the Muslim Peoples of Northeastern Africa (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2003), pp. 1-17. (with R. S. O’Fahey)

“Grand mufti, érudit et nationaliste érythréen: note sur la vie et l’oeuvre de cheikh Ibrâhîm al-Mukhtâr (1909-1969),” Chroniques Yéménites (Sanaa : Centre Français d’Archéologie et de Sciences Sociales) 10 (2002), pp. 35-47.

“Missionaries, education, and the state in the Italian colony of Eritrea,” In Holger Bernt Hansen and Michael Twaddle (eds.), Christian Missionaries and the State in the Third World (Oxford and Athens, OH: James Currey and Ohio University Press, 2002), pp. 121-135.

4 entries: Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, Ed., S. Uhlig, Volume V (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2012).
“Zabid” (Islamic center of learning in Yemen)[1100 words]; “Hashim al-Mirghani”; “Muhammad al-Hasan al-Mirghani” [900 words], “Ja’far al-Mirghani.”

2 entries: Dictionary of African Biography, Eds., Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Emmanuel K. Akyeampong (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011).
“Ibrahim al-Mukhtar Ahmad Umar” [1600 words]; "Mahmoud Ahmed (b.1941)"

7 entries: Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, Ed., S. Uhlig, Volume IV (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2010). “Onnis, Eleonora” [with Fr. Ezio Tonini] [800 words]; “Quraysh” [950 words]; “Red Sea Slave Trade in the Nineteenth Century” [1200 words]; “Sabderat”[600 words]; “Sawakin”[1500 words]; “Semhar” [900 words]; “Shafi‘ism” [1650 words]

14 entries: Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, Ed., S. Uhlig, Volume III (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2007).
“Hetumlo” (p. 23-4) [750 words]; “Ibrahim Pasha, Viceroy of Egypt” (p. 110)[475 words]; “Ibrahim Pasha, Governor of Massawa” (p. 110)[115 words]; “Ibrahim al-Mukhtar Ahmad ‘Umar” (p. 111-2)[750 words]; “History of Islam in Eritrea” (p. 208-12)[3300 words]; “Islamic Brotherhoods” [w/ Hussein Ahmed] (p. 212-6)[2700 words]; “Malikism” (p. 696-8)[1350 words]; “Marya” (p. 824-6)[900 words]; “Mosques” [with Hussein Ahmed] (p. 1027-32)[3200 words]; “Muhammad ‘Uthman al-Mirghani” (p. 1060-1)[800 words]; “Muhammad Mukhtar” (p. 1054)[370 words]; “Muhammad Nadi ” (p. 1054-5)[300 words]; “Muhammad Ra’uf” (1056-7)[350 words]; “Na’ib” [with Emeri van Donzel] (p. 1116-8)[1700 words]

“Massawa,” In Steffen Wenig (ed.) In Kaiserlichem Auftrag. Die Deutsche Aksum-Expedition 1906 unter Enno Littman. Volume I. (Archäologische Forschungen, German Archaeological Institute, KAAK, Hrsg. von Burkhard Vogt), Aichwald: Verlag Lindensoft, 2006, pp. 279-287.

2 entries: Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, Ed., S. Uhlig, Volume II (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2005).
“Emberemi” (p. 272) [500 words]; “Harar under Egyptian occupation, 1875-85” (p. 1019-20) [740 words]

14 entries: Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, Ed., S. Uhlig, Volume I (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2003).
“‘Abd Allâh Bey al-Ghûl” (p. 34)[ca. 130 words]; “‘Ad Mu‘allim” (p. 67-8)[ca. 250 words]; “‘Ad Shaykh” (p. 68-9)[ca. 400 words]; “‘Ad Takles” (p. 69)[ca. 230 words]; “‘Ad Temariam” (p. 69-70)[ca. 250 words]; “Ahmad ‘Abd al Karîm” (p. 154)[ca. 100 words]; “Ahmad Hassan” (p. 160) [ca. 100 words]; “Ahmad Nâshat Afandi” (p. 161)[ca. 100 words]; “Ahmad ‘Ubayd Bâ Hubayshî” (p. 161)[150 words]; “‘Alî Nurîn” (p. 202-3)[ca. 150 words]; “‘Arif Aga” (p. 334)[ca. 150 words]; “Bardey, Alfred” (p. 476)[ca. 120 words]; “Bet Asgäde” (p. 550)[400 words]; “Bet Guk” (p. 550-1)[ca. 280 words]

“Mohammed Mokhtar: officier égyptien et explorateur,” In Alain Rouaud (ed.) Les orientalistes sont des aventuriers: guirlande offerte à Joseph Tubiana par ses élèves et ses amis (Paris: Sépia, Bibliothèque Pereisc 12, 1999), pp. 130-135.