Alexis Wick
Biographic Data
| ID | 3742296 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexis Wick |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexis |
| FAMILY NAME | Wick |
| SIGNATURE | WICK A |
| AFFILIATIONS | American University of Beirut |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5668-4980 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Contested Geographies
This article builds on previous work that has sought to rethink the very ideas of Africa and the Arab world (and their intimately imbricated histories). It presents a comparative analysis of three differing sources from the 1840s, a period of intense crisis in the bilad al-Sudan on the Ottoman Empire's southern frontier, focusing on their conceptual grammars and tracing their imaginative geographies. We argue for a historical methodology that pay…
The Cambridge Companion to Ottoman History
Why study Ottoman history? What are the available sources? And how can researchers begin locating, reading, and interpreting these? The Cambridge Companion to Ottoman History provides a broad introduction to the field, offering readers accessible outlines of its varied methods and approaches. Bringing together contributions from leading researchers, the volume considers the theoretical, methodological, and practical challenges faced by Ottoman hi…
Cambridge Companion to Ottoman History
Gülhane contra Islahat
This article revisits the Tanzimat, without taking for granted its usual treatment as a self-contained story, part of the global march of progress and reform. It undertakes a comparative textual analysis of the two founding documents of the Tanzimat paradigm, the imperial edicts of 1839 and 1856. These texts, it is shown, bespeak different conceptual grammars: whereas the former is anchored in the Ottoman and Islamic tradition (the Quran, the Pro…
Adab as a Way of Life
Like ancient philosophy in Pierre Hadot’s conception, the polysemic notion of adab in the Arabic-Islamic tradition was a way of life , and not merely a scholarly discipline or cultural field. This essay explores this proposition in reference to the life and work of the Palestinian historian Ṭarīf al-Khālidī, where adab has been a central locus of reflection. Although steeped in present-day historical, literary, and philosophical discussions, we a…
The Red Sea
Red Sea
The Red Sea has, from time immemorial, been one of the world's most navigated spaces, in the pursuit of trade, pilgrimage, and conquest. Yet this multidimensional history remains largely unrevealed by its successive protagonists. Intrigued by the absence of a holistic portrayal of this body of water and inspired by Fernand Braudel's famous work on the Mediterranean, this book brings alive a dynamic Red Sea world across time, revealing the particu…
History, Geography, and the Sea
Maritime history has grown exponentially in recent years. Seen as a remedy to the ideological straightjackets of nation-state and area studies paradigms associated with modernization theory, a methodological orientation towards the sea offers the historian the advantages of an interactive transnational approach, and places matters of the environment and material culture before stories of kings and battles. Crucially, it focuses on flows, routes, …
Sailing the Modern Episteme
The invention of the Mediterranean as a coherent analytical concept dates back to early nineteenth-century Europe, just as the new academic disciplines of history, geography, and Orientalism were being institutionalized, amid the wider transformation of the order of words and things into what Michel Foucault termed the “modern episteme.” This is also the period when Egyptian scholar al-Ṭahṭāwī spent about five years in Paris as the spiritual guid…
River Jordan
River Jordan: The Mythology of a Dividing Line." Journal of Palestine Studies, 42(3), pp. 107–108 Additional informationNotes on contributorsAlexis WickAlexis Wick is assistant professor of history at the American University of Beirut
Narcissus
This essay explores the symbiotic relationship between European modernity, its vision of woman and water. The union of these three metaconcepts is consecrated by the Ovidian story of Narcissus and his other, Echo. The West finally found itself completely through Hegel, the Ur-narcissist, who explains the immutable link between that European monopoly, history (by which he means the potential for becoming modern), and the sea. The narcissism of mod…
The International Journal of African Historical Studies, « Colonial Encounters Between Africa and Portugal »
The International Journal of African Historical Studies (Boston, African Studies Center), XXXVI (1), 2003, ISSN : 03617882, no spécial, Jeanne Marie P envenne (ed.), « Colonial Encounters Between Africa and Portugal »" published on 23 Oct 2008 by Brill
Manifestations of nationhood in the writings of Amilcar Cabral
This paper focuses on the conceptual contribution Cabral made to the 'New Man' ideal, seen as the definition of a more humane and democratic citizen, capable of engaging in transformation from the reality of each historical context and engaged in the struggle against injustice. The author compares Cabral's key proposals on nation‐class, culture, ethnicity and imperialism, with more traditional Marxist views and from the angle of their possible Eu…
Red Sea
The Red Sea has, from time immemorial, been one of the world's most navigated spaces, in the pursuit of trade, pilgrimage, and conquest. Yet this multidimensional history remains largely unrevealed by its successive protagonists. Intrigued by the absence of a holistic portrayal of this body of water and inspired by Fernand Braudel's famous work on the Mediterranean, this book brings alive a dynamic Red Sea world across time, revealing the particu…
Narcissus
This essay explores the symbiotic relationship between European modernity, its vision of woman and water. The union of these three metaconcepts is consecrated by the Ovidian story of Narcissus and his other, Echo. The West finally found itself completely through Hegel, the Ur-narcissist, who explains the immutable link between that European monopoly, history (by which he means the potential for becoming modern), and the sea. The narcissism of mod…
History, Geography, and the Sea
Maritime history has grown exponentially in recent years. Seen as a remedy to the ideological straightjackets of nation-state and area studies paradigms associated with modernization theory, a methodological orientation towards the sea offers the historian the advantages of an interactive transnational approach, and places matters of the environment and material culture before stories of kings and battles. Crucially, it focuses on flows, routes, …
Manifestations of nationhood in the writings of Amilcar Cabral
This paper focuses on the conceptual contribution Cabral made to the 'New Man' ideal, seen as the definition of a more humane and democratic citizen, capable of engaging in transformation from the reality of each historical context and engaged in the struggle against injustice. The author compares Cabral's key proposals on nation‐class, culture, ethnicity and imperialism, with more traditional Marxist views and from the angle of their possible Eu…
Manifestations of nationhood in the writings of Amilcar Cabral
This paper focuses on the conceptual contribution Cabral made to the 'New Man' ideal, seen as the definition of a more humane and democratic citizen, capable of engaging in transformation from the reality of each historical context and engaged in the struggle against injustice. The author compares Cabral's key proposals on nation‐class, culture, ethnicity and imperialism, with more traditional Marxist views and from the angle of their possible Eu…
The International Journal of African Historical Studies, « Colonial Encounters Between Africa and Portugal »
The International Journal of African Historical Studies (Boston, African Studies Center), XXXVI (1), 2003, ISSN : 03617882, no spécial, Jeanne Marie P envenne (ed.), « Colonial Encounters Between Africa and Portugal »" published on 23 Oct 2008 by Brill
River Jordan
River Jordan: The Mythology of a Dividing Line." Journal of Palestine Studies, 42(3), pp. 107–108 Additional informationNotes on contributorsAlexis WickAlexis Wick is assistant professor of history at the American University of Beirut
Narcissus
This essay explores the symbiotic relationship between European modernity, its vision of woman and water. The union of these three metaconcepts is consecrated by the Ovidian story of Narcissus and his other, Echo. The West finally found itself completely through Hegel, the Ur-narcissist, who explains the immutable link between that European monopoly, history (by which he means the potential for becoming modern), and the sea. The narcissism of mod…
Sailing the Modern Episteme
The invention of the Mediterranean as a coherent analytical concept dates back to early nineteenth-century Europe, just as the new academic disciplines of history, geography, and Orientalism were being institutionalized, amid the wider transformation of the order of words and things into what Michel Foucault termed the “modern episteme.” This is also the period when Egyptian scholar al-Ṭahṭāwī spent about five years in Paris as the spiritual guid…
The Red Sea
Red Sea
The Red Sea has, from time immemorial, been one of the world's most navigated spaces, in the pursuit of trade, pilgrimage, and conquest. Yet this multidimensional history remains largely unrevealed by its successive protagonists. Intrigued by the absence of a holistic portrayal of this body of water and inspired by Fernand Braudel's famous work on the Mediterranean, this book brings alive a dynamic Red Sea world across time, revealing the particu…
History, Geography, and the Sea
Maritime history has grown exponentially in recent years. Seen as a remedy to the ideological straightjackets of nation-state and area studies paradigms associated with modernization theory, a methodological orientation towards the sea offers the historian the advantages of an interactive transnational approach, and places matters of the environment and material culture before stories of kings and battles. Crucially, it focuses on flows, routes, …
Gülhane contra Islahat
This article revisits the Tanzimat, without taking for granted its usual treatment as a self-contained story, part of the global march of progress and reform. It undertakes a comparative textual analysis of the two founding documents of the Tanzimat paradigm, the imperial edicts of 1839 and 1856. These texts, it is shown, bespeak different conceptual grammars: whereas the former is anchored in the Ottoman and Islamic tradition (the Quran, the Pro…
Adab as a Way of Life
Like ancient philosophy in Pierre Hadot’s conception, the polysemic notion of adab in the Arabic-Islamic tradition was a way of life , and not merely a scholarly discipline or cultural field. This essay explores this proposition in reference to the life and work of the Palestinian historian Ṭarīf al-Khālidī, where adab has been a central locus of reflection. Although steeped in present-day historical, literary, and philosophical discussions, we a…
Cambridge Companion to Ottoman History
The Cambridge Companion to Ottoman History
Why study Ottoman history? What are the available sources? And how can researchers begin locating, reading, and interpreting these? The Cambridge Companion to Ottoman History provides a broad introduction to the field, offering readers accessible outlines of its varied methods and approaches. Bringing together contributions from leading researchers, the volume considers the theoretical, methodological, and practical challenges faced by Ottoman hi…
Contested Geographies
This article builds on previous work that has sought to rethink the very ideas of Africa and the Arab world (and their intimately imbricated histories). It presents a comparative analysis of three differing sources from the 1840s, a period of intense crisis in the bilad al-Sudan on the Ottoman Empire's southern frontier, focusing on their conceptual grammars and tracing their imaginative geographies. We argue for a historical methodology that pay…
Sociology (8 works) · History (7 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (6 works) · Islamic Studies and History (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works)