Fergus Nicoll
Biographic Data
| ID | 6464381 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fergus Nicoll |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fergus |
| FAMILY NAME | Nicoll |
| SIGNATURE | NICOLL F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Schlumberger (Ireland) |
| ORCID | 0009-0005-3194-4391 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Faith, Language, and Identity
This article seeks to address a significant lacuna in Arab American Studies in respect of the role played by primary, secondary, and adult education in the integration of hundreds of thousands of mainly Christian immigrants from the Ottoman Levant between the 1890s and the late 1920s. The article begins by discussing the context in which US federal authorities sought to assimilate and “Americanize” these new immigrants through the education of ad…
The Tomb of the Sudanese Mahdī
Fatwa and Propaganda
The powerful call ( daʿwa ) of Muḥammad Aḥmad, the self-styled Mahdī, and his ensuing jihad against Ottoman-Egyptian rule in Sudan provoked a variety of responses within the larger Muslim community. The ʿulamāʾ , al-Azhar-trained orthodox legal and religious scholars in Khartoum and Cairo, responded with outrage and detailed legal arguments, challenging the credentials of an individual they insisted was an impostor, and rehearsing instead the leg…
Truest History, Struck Off at White Heat’
The 317-day siege of Khartoum during 1884–85 was one of the most bitter in history, culminating in the deaths of thousands of inhabitants, members of the Egyptian occupying garrison and their commanding officer, Major-General Charles Gordon. Five months after his death, Gordon's surviving ‘Khartoum Journals’ were published, in carefully edited form. This article considers the highly politicised nature of the editing process, in which William Glad…
Fatwa and Propaganda
The powerful call ( daʿwa ) of Muḥammad Aḥmad, the self-styled Mahdī, and his ensuing jihad against Ottoman-Egyptian rule in Sudan provoked a variety of responses within the larger Muslim community. The ʿulamāʾ , al-Azhar-trained orthodox legal and religious scholars in Khartoum and Cairo, responded with outrage and detailed legal arguments, challenging the credentials of an individual they insisted was an impostor, and rehearsing instead the leg…
Truest History, Struck Off at White Heat’
The 317-day siege of Khartoum during 1884–85 was one of the most bitter in history, culminating in the deaths of thousands of inhabitants, members of the Egyptian occupying garrison and their commanding officer, Major-General Charles Gordon. Five months after his death, Gordon's surviving ‘Khartoum Journals’ were published, in carefully edited form. This article considers the highly politicised nature of the editing process, in which William Glad…
Truest History, Struck Off at White Heat’
The 317-day siege of Khartoum during 1884–85 was one of the most bitter in history, culminating in the deaths of thousands of inhabitants, members of the Egyptian occupying garrison and their commanding officer, Major-General Charles Gordon. Five months after his death, Gordon's surviving ‘Khartoum Journals’ were published, in carefully edited form. This article considers the highly politicised nature of the editing process, in which William Glad…
Fatwa and Propaganda
The powerful call ( daʿwa ) of Muḥammad Aḥmad, the self-styled Mahdī, and his ensuing jihad against Ottoman-Egyptian rule in Sudan provoked a variety of responses within the larger Muslim community. The ʿulamāʾ , al-Azhar-trained orthodox legal and religious scholars in Khartoum and Cairo, responded with outrage and detailed legal arguments, challenging the credentials of an individual they insisted was an impostor, and rehearsing instead the leg…
The Tomb of the Sudanese Mahdī
Faith, Language, and Identity
This article seeks to address a significant lacuna in Arab American Studies in respect of the role played by primary, secondary, and adult education in the integration of hundreds of thousands of mainly Christian immigrants from the Ottoman Levant between the 1890s and the late 1920s. The article begins by discussing the context in which US federal authorities sought to assimilate and “Americanize” these new immigrants through the education of ad…
Political science (3 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Islamic Studies and History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Americanization (1 works)