Professor Alan Mikhail is a distinguished historian from Yale University.
He specializes in the history of the Middle East, the Early Modern Muslim World, the Ottoman Empire, Egypt, Environmental History, the History of Medicine, and Early Modern History. He has authored five influential books, including, The Animal in Ottoman Egypt, Nature and Empire in Ottoman Egypt: An Environmental History, Under Osman’s Tree: The Ottoman Empire, Egypt, and Environmental History, God’s Shadow: Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World, and My Egypt Archive.
Professor Alan’s groundbreaking work has been instrumental in establishing the field of Middle East environmental history, centering the Ottoman Empire in global early modern history, and critically examining how archives shape our understanding of the past and present. Currently, he is exploring the intertwined histories of Islam and colonial America.
In this int of Sultan Selim and his contribution to the formation of the modern world.
