John-Paul Ghobrial
Biographic Data
| ID | 1531261 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John-Paul Ghobrial |
| GIVEN NAMES | John-Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Ghobrial |
| SIGNATURE | GHOBRIAL J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Balliol College 1 , Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3442-9599 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Margins are in our Minds
This article offers a close reading of a collection of letters written by Capuchin missionaries in the Ottoman empire in the early seventeenth century. It does so with a view towards understanding how the early Capuchins reflected on their position in both local and global contexts. Rather than see these early Capuchin missions as operating ‘in the margins’ – whether by virtue of their presence in the world of Eastern Christianity, or by virtue o…
D’Alep à Paris
In 1707, a young man from Aleppo named Hanna Diyāb was searching for purpose in life. After a brief, unsuccessful stint as a novice in a monastery on Mount Lebanon, he decided to return home, and along the way he encountered Paul Lucas, a French traveller who had been sent to the Ottoman Empire to collect medals, coins and antiquities for Louis XIV. Lucas persuaded Hanna to work with him as a sort of factotum, and the two men visited sites scatte…
The Archive of Orientalism and its Keepers
The Secret Life of Elias of Babylon and the Uses of Global Microhistory
Here are the bare facts of a life lived in the seventeenth century. In 1668 a man named Elias left the Ottoman city of Baghdad for good. His reasons for leaving are a mystery, and it is unclear whether he ever intended to return home to his family. What is certain is that, by the time of his death, Elias had travelled across Europe and as far away as the Spanish colonies of Latin America — a part of the world, he would write years later, that eve…
Venetians in Constantinople
The Secret Life of Elias of Babylon and the Uses of Global Microhistory
Here are the bare facts of a life lived in the seventeenth century. In 1668 a man named Elias left the Ottoman city of Baghdad for good. His reasons for leaving are a mystery, and it is unclear whether he ever intended to return home to his family. What is certain is that, by the time of his death, Elias had travelled across Europe and as far away as the Spanish colonies of Latin America — a part of the world, he would write years later, that eve…
The Archive of Orientalism and its Keepers
Venetians in Constantinople
The Secret Life of Elias of Babylon and the Uses of Global Microhistory
Here are the bare facts of a life lived in the seventeenth century. In 1668 a man named Elias left the Ottoman city of Baghdad for good. His reasons for leaving are a mystery, and it is unclear whether he ever intended to return home to his family. What is certain is that, by the time of his death, Elias had travelled across Europe and as far away as the Spanish colonies of Latin America — a part of the world, he would write years later, that eve…
The Archive of Orientalism and its Keepers
D’Alep à Paris
In 1707, a young man from Aleppo named Hanna Diyāb was searching for purpose in life. After a brief, unsuccessful stint as a novice in a monastery on Mount Lebanon, he decided to return home, and along the way he encountered Paul Lucas, a French traveller who had been sent to the Ottoman Empire to collect medals, coins and antiquities for Louis XIV. Lucas persuaded Hanna to work with him as a sort of factotum, and the two men visited sites scatte…
The Margins are in our Minds
This article offers a close reading of a collection of letters written by Capuchin missionaries in the Ottoman empire in the early seventeenth century. It does so with a view towards understanding how the early Capuchins reflected on their position in both local and global contexts. Rather than see these early Capuchin missions as operating ‘in the margins’ – whether by virtue of their presence in the world of Eastern Christianity, or by virtue o…
Ancient history (5 works) · History (5 works) · History (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Arabic (2 works) · Byzantine Studies and History (2 works) · Genealogy (2 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (2 works) · Islamic Studies and History (2 works) · Law (2 works)