I first began thinking about some of the questions that animate Imperial Mecca as early as 2004 or 2005. At the time, I was a master’s student in World History at Georgia State University.
Michael Christopher Low
Michael Christopher Low is Assistant Professor of History at Iowa State University. Low is also currently a Senior Humanities Research Fellow for the Study of the Arab World at NYU Abu Dhabi. He is the author of Imperial Mecca: Ottoman Araba and the Indian Ocean Hajj (Columbia University Press, 2020) and the co-editor of The Subjects of Ottoman International Law (Indiana University Press, 2020).