Mostafa Minawi, Cornell University
Associate Professor
Ithaca, New York
mm2492@cornell.edu
Office:
(607) 254-1275
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Bio/Research
My research interests range from the macro transimperial approach in imperial history to the micro biographical/experiential history of living at the end of the Age of Empire. My first book, The Ottoman Scramble for Africa: Empire and Diplomacy in the Sahara and the Hijaz focuses on the empire’s ...
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Bio/Research
My research interests range from the macro transimperial approach in imperial history to the micro biographical/experiential history of living at the end of the Age of Empire. My first book, The Ottoman Scramble for Africa: Empire and Diplomacy in the Sahara and the Hijaz focuses on the empire’s efforts to reinvent itself on the international stage through the use of international law, interimperial diplomacy, and interpersonal relations with local chiefs, Sufi order leaders, kings, and sultans in Europe, the Sahara, and the Red Sea Basin. This work gives a new perspective on the study of imperialism by focusing on the inter- and interaimperial relations in the Ottoman context, south-south dimension of colonialism in Africa and the Middle East, and the shift from “old” to “new” imperial models of rule along the empire’s frontiers-cum-borderlands at the turn of the 20th century.
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