Ismael M Montana
Biographic Data
| ID | 1448944 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ismael M Montana |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ismael M |
| FAMILY NAME | Montana |
| SIGNATURE | MONTANA I M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northern Illinois University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2292-0970 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Interview with Gunja SenGupta and Awam Amkpa
Paul E. Lovejoy Prize
Cities, Migration and Global Interdependence 1350-2000
Cynthia J. Becker, Blackness in Morocco. Gnawa Identity through Music and Visual Culture
In the wake of the senseless murder of George Floyd at the hand of police in Minneapolis during the summer of 2020, scholarly and civic discourse spurred by the Black Lives Matter Movement across the globe on the interconnection between slavery, race, racism, and anti-Blackness galvanized an attention to these issues to levels never seen before in North Africa and the Middle East. In Blackness in Morocco. Gnawa Identity through Music and Visual C…
Interview with Michael Lawrence Dickinson
His research examines enslaved Black lives and communities in eighteenth and nineteenth century cities.The Lovejoy
In Memoriam
Ahmad Bey's 1846 Istiftāʾ
On April 26, 1846, Ahmad Bey signed a historic emancipation decree making the Regency of Tunis the first in the modern Islamic world to formally abolish the longstanding institution of slavery. While the decree marked the first of such unprecedented measures, attracting a barrage of compliments from anti-slavery societies around the globe, it conflicted with the local notions of enslaving practices and thus prompted an earnest process of legitima…
The Forgotten Sudanic Palace Guards of Ali Bey I
Between 1512 and 1574, after they halted Spain’s imperial and colonial ambitions, with the exception of Morocco the Ottomans in turn occupied the Maghrib. To administer this new eyalets (provinces), which was now incorporated into the Ottoman Empire, the Ottomans introduced a military system based exclusively on mamluk infantry, the vast majority of whom were of slave castes. By comparison to the mamluks, employment of military slaves and militia…
European capitalism and the effects of agricultural commercialization on slave labor in Tunisia, 1780s–1880s
The paper argues that while the significance of Tunisian state economic and political reforms during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries has reflected the changing patterns of the caravan slave trade in previous research, much of this research has not considered the role of slaves in the emergent Tunisian economy. Nowhere is this negligence more apparent than in the agricultural sector, which was predominantly responsible for strengthen…
The trans-Saharan slave trade in the context of Tunisian foreign trade in the western Mediterranean
The paper explores effects of local Tunisian reforms and broader economic and political developments occurring in the western Mediterranean shores during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries on the trans-Saharan slave trade. While the scanty available literature stresses the insignificance of the trans-Saharan slave trade to Tunisia, this paper examines the complex interplay of Tunisian economic reforms and the burgeoning European c…
The Abolition of Slavery in Ottoman Tunisia
Tunisia is known for being the first Muslim country to abolish slavery during the modern period. Although Ahmed Bey, the country's ruler in the mid-nineteenth century, was morally opposed to slavery, he did not have the broad support of the citizenry to enact reforms. Even religious leaders were against change, pointing to the Islamic Law precedent for slave ownership. Yet the bey realised that increased European intervention throughout North Afr…
The Ordeals of Slaves’ Flight in Tunisia
Slavery and the heritage of slavery have been important in many African societies. It has been so important that many Africans have tried to suppress memories about them. This chapter gathers together three very diverse documents which inform us Africans' thought on the institution of slavery. The first comes from Cameroon. Ahmadou Sehou, a scholar from that country, has found documents associated with Lamido Iyawa Adamou, a powerful chief who de…
Bori practice among enslaved West Africans of Ottoman Tunis
Building on Ahmad ibn Yusuf b. al-Qadi al-Timbuktawi's treatise entitled Hatk al-Sitr Amma Alayhi Sudani Tunis min al-Kufr (Piercing the Veil: Being an Account of the Infidel Religions of the Blacks of Tunis) this paper examines the implications of the Hausa non-Muslim Bori cult practice in Ottoman Tunis on enslaved West Africans' retentions of religious and family values from their original homelands. Specifically, the paper traces and analyses …
Slavery, Islam and Diaspora
The Lomé Convention from Inception to the Dynamics of the Post-Cold War, 1957-1990s
From the early 1960s through the late 1980s, Lomé Convention, the chief achievement of Euro-African Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries' entente, has been an interdependent form of partnership that has offered ACP states a privileged position in the European Economic Commission's Market. Although considered a cornerstone and model for Europe's North-South economic cooperation, changes that occurred in the aftermath of the Cold War had drastic e…
The Abolition of Slavery in Ottoman Tunisia
Tunisia is known for being the first Muslim country to abolish slavery during the modern period. Although Ahmed Bey, the country's ruler in the mid-nineteenth century, was morally opposed to slavery, he did not have the broad support of the citizenry to enact reforms. Even religious leaders were against change, pointing to the Islamic Law precedent for slave ownership. Yet the bey realised that increased European intervention throughout North Afr…
Bori practice among enslaved West Africans of Ottoman Tunis
Building on Ahmad ibn Yusuf b. al-Qadi al-Timbuktawi's treatise entitled Hatk al-Sitr Amma Alayhi Sudani Tunis min al-Kufr (Piercing the Veil: Being an Account of the Infidel Religions of the Blacks of Tunis) this paper examines the implications of the Hausa non-Muslim Bori cult practice in Ottoman Tunis on enslaved West Africans' retentions of religious and family values from their original homelands. Specifically, the paper traces and analyses …
In Memoriam
The trans-Saharan slave trade in the context of Tunisian foreign trade in the western Mediterranean
The paper explores effects of local Tunisian reforms and broader economic and political developments occurring in the western Mediterranean shores during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries on the trans-Saharan slave trade. While the scanty available literature stresses the insignificance of the trans-Saharan slave trade to Tunisia, this paper examines the complex interplay of Tunisian economic reforms and the burgeoning European c…
The Lomé Convention from Inception to the Dynamics of the Post-Cold War, 1957-1990s
From the early 1960s through the late 1980s, Lomé Convention, the chief achievement of Euro-African Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries' entente, has been an interdependent form of partnership that has offered ACP states a privileged position in the European Economic Commission's Market. Although considered a cornerstone and model for Europe's North-South economic cooperation, changes that occurred in the aftermath of the Cold War had drastic e…
The Lomé Convention from Inception to the Dynamics of the Post-Cold War, 1957-1990s
From the early 1960s through the late 1980s, Lomé Convention, the chief achievement of Euro-African Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries' entente, has been an interdependent form of partnership that has offered ACP states a privileged position in the European Economic Commission's Market. Although considered a cornerstone and model for Europe's North-South economic cooperation, changes that occurred in the aftermath of the Cold War had drastic e…
Slavery, Islam and Diaspora
Bori practice among enslaved West Africans of Ottoman Tunis
Building on Ahmad ibn Yusuf b. al-Qadi al-Timbuktawi's treatise entitled Hatk al-Sitr Amma Alayhi Sudani Tunis min al-Kufr (Piercing the Veil: Being an Account of the Infidel Religions of the Blacks of Tunis) this paper examines the implications of the Hausa non-Muslim Bori cult practice in Ottoman Tunis on enslaved West Africans' retentions of religious and family values from their original homelands. Specifically, the paper traces and analyses …
The Ordeals of Slaves’ Flight in Tunisia
Slavery and the heritage of slavery have been important in many African societies. It has been so important that many Africans have tried to suppress memories about them. This chapter gathers together three very diverse documents which inform us Africans' thought on the institution of slavery. The first comes from Cameroon. Ahmadou Sehou, a scholar from that country, has found documents associated with Lamido Iyawa Adamou, a powerful chief who de…
The Abolition of Slavery in Ottoman Tunisia
Tunisia is known for being the first Muslim country to abolish slavery during the modern period. Although Ahmed Bey, the country's ruler in the mid-nineteenth century, was morally opposed to slavery, he did not have the broad support of the citizenry to enact reforms. Even religious leaders were against change, pointing to the Islamic Law precedent for slave ownership. Yet the bey realised that increased European intervention throughout North Afr…
The trans-Saharan slave trade in the context of Tunisian foreign trade in the western Mediterranean
The paper explores effects of local Tunisian reforms and broader economic and political developments occurring in the western Mediterranean shores during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries on the trans-Saharan slave trade. While the scanty available literature stresses the insignificance of the trans-Saharan slave trade to Tunisia, this paper examines the complex interplay of Tunisian economic reforms and the burgeoning European c…
European capitalism and the effects of agricultural commercialization on slave labor in Tunisia, 1780s–1880s
The paper argues that while the significance of Tunisian state economic and political reforms during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries has reflected the changing patterns of the caravan slave trade in previous research, much of this research has not considered the role of slaves in the emergent Tunisian economy. Nowhere is this negligence more apparent than in the agricultural sector, which was predominantly responsible for strengthen…
The Forgotten Sudanic Palace Guards of Ali Bey I
Between 1512 and 1574, after they halted Spain’s imperial and colonial ambitions, with the exception of Morocco the Ottomans in turn occupied the Maghrib. To administer this new eyalets (provinces), which was now incorporated into the Ottoman Empire, the Ottomans introduced a military system based exclusively on mamluk infantry, the vast majority of whom were of slave castes. By comparison to the mamluks, employment of military slaves and militia…
Cynthia J. Becker, Blackness in Morocco. Gnawa Identity through Music and Visual Culture
In the wake of the senseless murder of George Floyd at the hand of police in Minneapolis during the summer of 2020, scholarly and civic discourse spurred by the Black Lives Matter Movement across the globe on the interconnection between slavery, race, racism, and anti-Blackness galvanized an attention to these issues to levels never seen before in North Africa and the Middle East. In Blackness in Morocco. Gnawa Identity through Music and Visual C…
Interview with Michael Lawrence Dickinson
His research examines enslaved Black lives and communities in eighteenth and nineteenth century cities.The Lovejoy
In Memoriam
Ahmad Bey's 1846 Istiftāʾ
On April 26, 1846, Ahmad Bey signed a historic emancipation decree making the Regency of Tunis the first in the modern Islamic world to formally abolish the longstanding institution of slavery. While the decree marked the first of such unprecedented measures, attracting a barrage of compliments from anti-slavery societies around the globe, it conflicted with the local notions of enslaving practices and thus prompted an earnest process of legitima…
Interview with Gunja SenGupta and Awam Amkpa
Paul E. Lovejoy Prize
Cities, Migration and Global Interdependence 1350-2000
Colonialism, slavery, and trade (8 works) · History (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · History (6 works) · Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · African history and culture studies (4 works) · Ancient history (4 works) · Art (4 works) · Context (archaeology (4 works)