Research Presentation entitled, “Contextualizing the History of Islamic Africa: An Alternative to the Area Studies Model” at United States International University-Africa, Nairobi, Kenya

In a panel for Zayed University professors entitled “Arab-African Encounter: Civilizational and Knowledge Impacts,” Ahmed Salem presented a paper examining attempts of early Arab historians to explore and use Arabic sources to focus on aspects of East African history not usually studied in Western academia. He explained how old Arab and African historians used to place East Africa history in the context of Omani and Indian Ocean context well before the dominance of Western narratives of that history.