Ahmed Y. AlMaazmi

Ahmed AlMaazmi is an Emirati historian who focuses on the intersection of occultism and imperialism in the Indian Ocean world. After completing his studies in cultural anthropology at Rutgers University as a Fulbright fellow, he pursued a PhD in Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. His dissertation, "An Enchanted Sea: The Occult Sciences in the Early Modern Indian Ocean World, 1450-1750," examines the connected histories of occult sciences and empire-building across Arabia, East Africa, and South Asia, told through intellectual projects that accompanied the rise of the Omani empire and its diasporic communities. His recent work includes the article, “I Authored This Book in the Absence of My Slave”: Enslaved East Africans and the Production of Occult Knowledge across the Omani Empire,” published in Monsoon Journal.