Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies
Dr James Onley
CD, BA, PBD, DPhil (Oxon), FRHistS, FRAS
Extension: 4030
Telephone: 01392 724030
Senior Lecturer in Middle Eastern History
Senior Lecturer in Middle Eastern History
Director, Exeter Centre for Gulf Studies
Academic Director, Trucial Oman Scouts Project
Co-Investigator, Qatar Unified Imaging Project
Editor, Journal of Arabian Studies
Editor, Britain and the World book series (Palgrave Macmillan)
Research interests
- The Gulf region (Arabia, Iran, Iraq), 17th–21st century
- History
- Politics
- British involvement
- Merchant families
- Ruling families
- Culture
- India, 17th–20th century
- British involvement
- Merchant families
- Ruling families
- Culture
- The Indian Ocean, 17th–20th century
- British involvement
- Merchant networks
- Cultural and political transnationalism (especially foreign influences on Arabia)
- European imperialism / world empires, 16th–20th century
- Britain and the Middle East (especially the Gulf region, Yemen, and Egypt)
- Britain and India
- Local cooperation and collaboration in the maintenance of empire
- Culture and empire (such as the Westernization of indigenous elites)
- Diasporas, 16th–21st century
- British, Indian, and Iranian communities in Arabia
- British, Arab, and Indian communities in Iran
- British, Arab, and Iranian communities in India
