Dr. Wilson Chacko Jacob is Associate Professor of History at Concordia University, Montreal. He is the author of For God or Empire: Sayyid Fadl and the Indian Ocean World (Stanford 2019), which traces the life and career of an itinerant Muslim preacher and descendant of the Prophet across the Indian Ocean through India, Arabia, and the Ottoman Empire in the nine-teenth century. This singular lens affords an incredible view onto the transformations in the na-ture of sovereignty engendered by the expanding governmental powers of empire-states. The study also examines the implications of such a worldly expansion of power for the (re)conceptu-alization of life. His first book was based on his award-winning Phd Thesis (NYU 2005) and en-titled Working Out Egypt: Effendi Masculinity and Subject Formation in Colonial Modernity, 1870-1940 (Duke University Press; American University in Cairo Press, 2011).
Lectures:
- “Between God’s Sovereignty and the Colonial State”