Publications

Books

Amal N. Ghazal. Islamic Reform and Arab Nationalism: Expanding the Crescent from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean, 1880s-1930s (Culture and Civilization in the Middle East Series, London: Routledge, 2010).

Refereed Articles

Amal Ghazal. “The Other Frontiers of Arab Nationalism: Berbers, Ibadis and the Arabist-Salafis of the Interwar Period,” The International Journal of Middle East Studies 42( February 2010): 105-122.

Amal Ghazal. “Seeking Common Ground: Salafism and Islamic Reform in Modern Ibadi Thought.” The Bulletin for the Royal Institute of Inter-Faith Studies 7, no.1 (Spring/Summer 2005): 119-141.

Amal Ghazal. “The Other ‘Andalus’: The Omani Elite in Zanzibar and the Making of an Identity, 1880s-1930s. MIT-Electronic Journal of Middle East Studies 5 (Fall 2005): 43-58.

Amal Ghazal. “Sufism, Ijtihad and Modernity, Yusuf al-Nabhani in the Age of ‘Abd al-Hamid II.” Archivum Ottomanicum 19(2001): 239-272.
Amal Ghazal. “Power, Arabism, and Islam: The Writings of Muhib al-Din al-Khatib in al-Fath.” Past Imperfect 6(1997): 133-149.

Book Chapters

Amal Ghazal. “Debating Slavery in the Arab Middle East: Abolition between Muslim Reformers and Conservatives,” In Islam, Slavery and Diaspora. Behnaz Mirzai Asl, Ismael M. Montana and Paul E. Lovejoy (eds.), (Trenton NJ: Africa World Press, 2009): 139-153.

Editorials

Amal Ghazal et al (Editors). “The Sixth War: Israel’s Invasion of Lebanon,” MIT-Electronic Journal of Middle East Studies 6(Summer 2006): 6-8.

Amal Ghazal (Guest Editor). “Kharijism and Ibadism: The Quest for an Integrative Approach to Islamic History,” The Bulletin for the Royal Institute of Inter-Faith Studies 7, no.1(Spring/Summer 2005): 1-6.

Amal Ghazal (Guest Editor). “Frontier Geography and Boundless History. Islam and Arabs in East Africa: A fusion of identities, networks and encounters.” MIT-Electronic Journal of Middle East Studies 5(Fall 2005): 6-8.

Book Reviews and Review Articles

Benjamin Claude Brower. A Desert Named Peace: The Violence of France’s Empire in the Algerian Sahara, 1844-1902. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. H-Levant, June 2010: 1-3.

Sean Hanretta. Islam and Social Change in French West Africa: History of an Emancipatory Community. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 42, Issue 02, May 2010: 348-349.

Bruce Maddy-Weitzman and Daniel Zisenwine (eds.). The Maghrib in the New Century: Identity, Religion and Politics. University Press of Florida, 2007. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, Vol. 29, no. 2(2009): 347-48.

Khaled el-Rouayheb. Before Homosexuality in the Arab-Islamic World, 1500-1800. University of Chicago Press, 2005. MIT-Electronic Journal of Middle East Studies, volume 8, Spring 2008: 286-88.

Amal Ghazal. “Middle East,” Annual Bulletin of Historical Literature 91: A Critical review of New Publications 2005, 2007, 213-219.

Derel Gregory. The Colonial Present. Blackwell, 2004. University of Toronto Quarterly, volume 75, number 1, Winter 2006: 461-463.