Dahlia E M Gubara
Biographic Data
| ID | 6055217 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dahlia E M Gubara |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dahlia E M |
| FAMILY NAME | Gubara |
| SIGNATURE | GUBARA D E M |
| AFFILIATIONS | 1 Columbia University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
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…
Islamic Scholarship in Africa
Revisiting Race and Slavery through ‘Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti’s ‘Aja’ib al-athar
The study of something termed Arab/Islamic slavery has flourished in recent years. Through a close reading of a seminal text, ‘Aja’ib al-athar fi’l-tarajim wa’l-akhbar by the late eighteenth-century Ottoman scholar ‘Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti, Gubara’s essay critically engages this literature and its key organizing concepts: namely, the ideas of race, slavery, and freedom. In place of the free-unfree, black-white dichotomies pervading contemporary …
Al-Azhar in the Bibliographic Imagination
This article interrogates the discursive substance of the library in the modern production of knowledge. It proceeds in two parts: the first section explores the locations of the idea of the Library in the modern episteme, while the second analyzes its importation and application in Egypt, and its implications for reforms at al-Azhar. Beginning with an exploration of the place of books and libraries as symbols and indices of civilizational progre…
Al-Azhar in the Bibliographic Imagination
This article interrogates the discursive substance of the library in the modern production of knowledge. It proceeds in two parts: the first section explores the locations of the idea of the Library in the modern episteme, while the second analyzes its importation and application in Egypt, and its implications for reforms at al-Azhar. Beginning with an exploration of the place of books and libraries as symbols and indices of civilizational progre…
Al-Azhar in the Bibliographic Imagination
This article interrogates the discursive substance of the library in the modern production of knowledge. It proceeds in two parts: the first section explores the locations of the idea of the Library in the modern episteme, while the second analyzes its importation and application in Egypt, and its implications for reforms at al-Azhar. Beginning with an exploration of the place of books and libraries as symbols and indices of civilizational progre…
Revisiting Race and Slavery through ‘Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti’s ‘Aja’ib al-athar
The study of something termed Arab/Islamic slavery has flourished in recent years. Through a close reading of a seminal text, ‘Aja’ib al-athar fi’l-tarajim wa’l-akhbar by the late eighteenth-century Ottoman scholar ‘Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti, Gubara’s essay critically engages this literature and its key organizing concepts: namely, the ideas of race, slavery, and freedom. In place of the free-unfree, black-white dichotomies pervading contemporary …
Islamic Scholarship in Africa
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…
History (3 works) · Islamic Studies and History (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · African history and culture analysis (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (2 works) · History (2 works) · Islam (2 works)