Prof. Dr. Jonathan Miran

Profile

Academic positionAssociate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Reader
Research fieldsOther Areas of History,Islamic Studies, Arabian Studies, Semitic Studies
Keywordsslave trade, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Northeast Africa, Islam, Red Sea and Indian Ocean area, slavery

Current contact address

CountryUnited States of America
CityBellingham
InstitutionWestern Washington University
InstituteLiberal Studies Department

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Siegbert UhligAbteilung für Afrikanistik und Äthiopistik, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg
Prof. Dr. Alessandro BausiAbteilung für Afrikanistik und Äthiopistik, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg
Start of initial sponsorship01/01/2008

Programme(s)

2007Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme

Publications (partial selection)

2019Jonathan Miran: Pearling Fortunes: Recovering ‘Al? al-Nah?r?, a Legendary Red Sea Magnate in the Early Twentieth Century. In: Pedro Machado, Steve Mullins and Joseph Christensen Pearls, People, and Power: Pearling and Indian Ocean Worlds. Ohio University Press, 2019. 313-343
2018Jonathan Miran: The Red Sea. In: David Armitage, Alison Bashford, Sujit Sivasundaram, Oceanic Histories. Cambridge University Press, 2018. 156-181
2018Jonathan Miran, Aharon Layish: The Testamentary Waqf as an Instrument of Elite Consolidation in Early Twentieth-Century Massawa (Eritrea). In: Islamic Law and Society, 2018, 78-120
2015Jonathan Miran: ’Stealing the Way’ to Mecca: West African Pilgrims and Illicit Red Sea Passages, 1920s-1950s. In: Journal of African History, 2015, 389-408
2014Jonathan Miran: Mapping Space and Mobility in the Red Sea Region, c. 1500-1950. In: History Compass, 2014, 197-216
2013Jonathan Miran: From Bondage to Freedom on the Red Sea Coast: Manumitted Slaves in Egyptian Massawa, 1873-1885. In: Slavery & Abolition, 2013, 135-157
2012Jonathan Miran: Red Sea Translocals: Hadrami Migration, Entrepreneurship, and Strategies of Integration in Eritrea, 1840s-1970s. In: Northeast African Studies, 2012, 129-167
2009Jonathan Miran: Endowing Property and Edifying Power in a Red Sea Port: Waqf, Arab Migrant Entrepreneurs, and Urban Authority in Massawa, 1860s-1880s. In: International Journal of African Historical Studies, 2009, 151-178
2009Jonathan Miran: Red Sea Citizens: Cosmopolitan Society and Cultural Change in Massawa. Indiana University Press, 2009