Ibadi Studies | دراسات إباضية

About Paul Love | عن پول لوڤ

I am a researcher with an interest in history, cultural heritage, manuscript studies, codicology, libraries, and intellectual networks. My research focuses on the history and manuscript traditions of Ibadi Muslim communities in northern Africa. I hold the post of Associate Professor of North African, Middle Eastern, and Islamic History at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane (AUI), Morocco.

أنا مؤرّخ مختصّ بتاريخ شمال افريقيا. تدور اهتماماتي حول التاريخ ، دراسة المخطوط، علم الكتاب، المكتبات الخاصّة والشبكات الفكرية والاجتماعية. يركّز بحثي على تاريخ المجتمعات الإباضية وثقافة المخطوط عندهم. أنا أستاذ محاضر في جامعة الأخوين بإفران (المغرب)

Research & Publications | البحث والمنشورات

My first book, entitled Ibadi Muslims of North Africa Manuscripts, Mobilization, and the Making of a Written Tradition (Cambridge University Press, 2018), is a history of the Ibadi prosopographical tradition in the Maghrib (11th-16th c.) and its role in the construction and maintenance of an Ibadi community in the region.

My second book, The Ottoman Ibadis of Cairo (Cambridge University Presss, 2023), looks at the history of the Ibadi community in the post-formative period, centered on early-modern and modern (17th-20th c.) Cairo. The study is a social history of an Ibadi trade agency, school, and library called the “Buffalo Agency” (Wikālat al-jāmūs),