A collection of writings on the history of Portuguese colonization, Brazil, West Africa, Islam, and the Middle East. Written during my time at Columbia University and St Catherine’s College, Oxford.

• Brazil’s Encounters with Islam and Immigration
• Tropes and Fictions in Iberian Encounters
• Brazil and Abolition
• Palmares and Afro-Brazilian Resistance
• Christianization’s Impact on Atlantic Slavery
• The Malê Revolt and Brazil’s “Racial Democracy”
• Religious Persecution in the Portuguese Empire
• A Critique of Joseph Schacht and Orientalist Narratives on Islamic Law