Fahad Bishara

Fahad Bishara is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Virginia's College of Arts & Sciences. He specializes in the economic and legal history of the Indian Ocean and Islamic world. His research focuses on global security, justice, and the intersection of commerce with cultural and societal dynamics.

His current book project, A Sea of Debt: Law and Economic Life in the Western Indian Ocean, 1780-1940 (Cambridge University Press), examines the Arab and Indian settlement and commercialization of East Africa during the 19th century through a legal-historical lens. His next project explores the dhow trade between the Gulf and the Indian Ocean (late 19th to early 20th centuries), addressing themes like international law, empire, mobility, writing, and scale within a shifting maritime context.

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