l'Afrique

États-Unis d'Amérique

Associate Professor

Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington

Jonathan.Miran@wwu.edu

Liberal Studies Department
Western Washington University
516 High Street
Bellingham, Washington 98225-9064
USA

phone: (360) 650-4867
fax: (360) 650-6713

Eritrea; Ethiopia; Somalia

Ph.D. Michigan State University, 2004

Social history of Muslim Northeast Africa
Islam and Muslim societies in Africa, with focus on Northeast Africa
Northeast African history in transregional and global perspectives
The Red Sea and Western Indian Ocean regions
Urban history (Africa, Middle East, Indian Ocean)
Historiography (‘Annales’, ‘Microstoria’, Global social history)

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

“Mapping Space and Mobility in the Red Sea Region, c. 1500-1950,” History Compass (forth.)

“From bondage to freedom on the Red Sea coast: manumitted slaves in Egyptian Massawa, 1873-
1885,” Slavery & Abolition 34, No. 1 (2013): 135-157.

“Guest editor’s introduction: Space, mobility, and translocal connections across the Red Sea area
since 1500,” Northeast African Studies 12, No.1 (2012): ix-xxvi.

“Red Sea translocals: Hadrami migration, entrepreneurship, and strategies of integration in
Eritrea, 1840s-1970s,” Northeast African Studies 12, No. 1 (2012): 129-167.

“Constructing and deconstructing the Tigre frontier space in the long nineteenth century,” In
Gianfrancesco Lusini (ed.), History and Language of the Tigre-Speaking Peoples. Proceedings of the International Workshop, Naples, February 7-8, 2008, «Studi Africanistici. Serie Etiopica 8 » (Napoli: Università di Napoli “L’Orientale”, 2010): 33-50.

“Endowing property and edifying power in a Red Sea Port: Waqf, Arab migrant entrepreneurs, and
urban authority in Massawa, 1860s-1880s,” The International Journal of African Historical Studies 42, No. 2 (2009): 151-178.

“Power without Pashas: the anatomy of Na’ib autonomy in Ottoman Eritrea (17th-19th c.),” Eritrean
Studies Review 5, No. 1 (2007): 33-88 (special issue on pre-colonial Eritrea edited by Bairu Tafla).

“A historical overview of Islam in Eritrea,” Die Welt des Islams 45, No. 2 (2005): 177-215.
[REPRINTED in Andrew Rippin (ed.), World Islam: Critical Concepts in Islamic Studies, Volume III. (London and New York: Routledge, 2008): 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): 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 10 (2002): 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): 121-135.

African history ; social history ; Islam in Africa ; Northeast Africa; Indian Ocean