History and Political Economy Colloquium: Before Islamic Finance: A History of Muslim Private Banking from the Maghreb to Indonesia, 1750-1975

Please join us to welcome Professor Michael O’Sullivan from the University of North Carolina Chapel-Hill who will discuss the introduction to his forthcoming book Before Islamic Finance: A History of Muslim Private Banking from the Maghreb to Indonesia, 1750-1975. Professor O’Sullivan is a scholar of early modern and modern South Asia in the context of Ottoman and European empires, the Western Indian Ocean, and connected histories of Muslim communities across Eurasia, the Maghreb, and East Africa. Please find the draft of the introduction attached below, along with the poster for the colloquium and the quarter-long series.