Books
2010 Viewing African Cinema in the Twenty-First Century: Art Films and the Nollywood Video Revolution (edited with Ralph A. Austen). Athens, OH: Ohio University Press.
2001 West African Challenge to Empire: Culture and History in the Volta-Bani Anticolonial War (authored with Patrick Royer), 404 pp. Ohio University Press, Athens, and James Currey, Oxford.
2013 Well-known specialists of Judeo-Spanish and newcomers explore the intersection of language and social identity in the chapters of this book. How did linguistic self-perception shape the thriving Judeo-Spanish speech and print cultures of the Jews in the Balkans, Turkey, and the Levant? Did their attitude toward language influence the crisis that they experienced after encountering the assertive nationalism of the twentieth century? Can identification with the language continue in other forms after emigration, or if the language no longer served the purpose of communication among the new generations?
2016 This volume is a multidisciplinary contribution to Sephardic studies, including chapters by some of the best-known authorities in the field, interspersed with those of young scholars who have begun making their mark in current research. The text aims to enrich this emerging field through historical linguistic studies as well as investigations based on contemporary movements, recent literary creations, and the issues involved in the contemporary revival.
The chapters presented in this collection include a selection of papers originally presented at the symposium “Sepharad as Imagined Community: Language, History, and Religion from the Early Modern Period to the 21st Century,” as well as pioneering contributions by other key scholars. Two notable additions include innovative explorations of Judeo-Spanish on the Internet.
Reviews
Selected Publications
The Wild Vegetation Cover of Western Burkina Faso: Colonial Policy and Post-Colonial Development. (with Jean-Marie Ouadba and Ouétian Bongnounou) in African Savannas: Global Narratives and Local Knowledge of Environmental Change, edited by Thomas Bassett and Donald Crummey, pp. 121-160. Oxford and Portsmouth, N.H.: James Currey and Heinemann, 2003.
“Les foyers Zara de Sia et de Tunuma à la fin du dix‐neuvième siècle.”
“Les foyers Zara de Sia et de Tunuma à la fin du dix‐neuvième siècle.” In La ville de Bobo-Dioulasso au Burkina Faso: Urbanité et appartenances en Afrique de l’ouest, edited by Katja Werthmann and Mamadou Lamine Sanogo, pp. 43-67. Paris: Karthala, 2013.
L’Economie formelle du cercle de Bobo-Dioulasso, 1899-1930
“L’économie formelle du cercle de Bobo-Dioulasso, 1899-1930.” A paper delivered in a colloquium of local academics and intellectuals in Bobo-Dioulasso, 1997. 42 pages, including 21 Tables.
The Language Shift Origins of Judeo-Spanish
Markets in West Africa Karl Polanyi
Markets in West Africa: Karl Polanyi, or what sort of social formation
Şaul, M. (2020). FESPACO and cultural valorization. Black Camera, 12(1), 129-132.
FESPACO and Cultural Valorization
Şaul, M. (2020). The opening of South Africa and the future of African film. Black Camera, 12(1), 315-319.
Saul, M. (2017). La jarre révolutionnaire bouillait 1915-1916: Guerre anticoloniale dans l’Ouest-Volta. Temps Modernes, 693-694(2-3), 59-86.
Saul, M. (2017). The migrant in a plotted adventure: Self-realisation and moral obligation in African stories from Istanbul. Journal of Modern African Studies, 55(1), 129-153.
Saul, M., & Hualde, J. I. (2016). Sepharad as Imagined Translocal Mediterranean Community: Introduction. In M. Şaul, & J. I. Hualde (Eds.), Sepharad as Imagined Community: Language, History, and Religion from the Early Modern Period to the 21st Century (pp. 1-25). Peter Lang Publishing.
2015. “Geçmişten Bugüne Siyah Afrika’dan Türkiye’ye Göçler: Kölelikten Küresel Girişimciliğe” [The Past and Present of Sub-Saharan African Migrations to Turkey: From Slavery to Global Entrepreneurship]. In M. Murat Erdoğan and Ayhan Kaya, 14. Yüzyıldan 21. Yüzyıla Türkiye’ye Göçler [Migrations to Turkey, 14th to 21st Centuries]. pp. 75-117. Istanbul: Bilgi University Press.
2013 Sahra Altı Afrika Ülkelerinden Türkiye’ye İş Göçü (Work Migration from Sub-Saharan Africa to Turkey). Ankara Üniversitesi Siyasal Bilgiler Fakültesi Dergisi 68, no. 1, pp. 83-121.
Sahra Altı Afrika Ülkelerinden Türkiye’ye İş Göçü (Work Migration from Sub-Saharan Africa to Turkey)
2004 Money in Colonial Transition: Cowries and Francs in West Africa
Money in Colonial Transition: Cowries and Francs in West Africa
2012 Le roi et la multiplication des pouvoirs. In La terre et le pouvoir. À la mémoire de Michel Izard, ed. by Dominique Casajus and Fabio Viti, pp. 163-179. Paris : Éditions Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.
2012 Le roi et la multiplication des pouvoirs. In La terre et le pouvoir.
2005 Claude Meillassoux (1925-2005). American Anthropologist, vol. 107, no. 4, pp. 753-57.
Claude Meillassoux (1925-2005), American Anthropologist 2005
Claude Meillassoux, Theory in Social and Cultural Anthropology 2013
”Claude Meillassoux, Theory in Social and Cultural Anthropology: An Encyclopedia 2013”
Paul Bohannan, Theory in Social and Cultural Anthropology 2013
”Paul Bohannan, Theory in Social and Cultural Anthropology: An Encyclopedia 2013”
1998 The War Houses of the Watara in West Africa. International Journal of African Historical Studies, vol. 31, no. 3, pp. 537-570.
The War Houses of the Watara in West Africa
2006 Islam and West African Anthropology. Africa Today, vol. 53, no. 1, pp. 2-33.
Islam and West African Anthropology.
2014 A Different Kargo: Sub-Saharan Migrants in Istanbul and African Commerce. Urban Anthropology, vol. 43, no. 1, 2, 3, pp. 143-204.
A Different Kargo: Sub-Saharan Migrants in Istanbul and African Commerce
2018 “Film and Video as Historical Sources.” In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History. Oxford University Press. Article published November 2018. doi:
Film and Video as Historical Sources
2010 Art, Commerce, and Politics in Francophone African Cinema. In Viewing African Cinema in the Twenty-first Century: Art Films and the Nollywood Video Revolution. Ed. By M. Şaul and R. Austen, pp. 133-159. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press.
Art, Commerce, and Politics in Francophone African Cinema
1981 Beer, Sorghum, and Women: Production for the Market in Rural Upper Volta. Africa (London: International African Institute), vol. 51, no. 3, pp. 746-76.
1981 Beer, Sorghum, and Women: Production for the Market in Rural Upper Volta.
2014 Global African Entrepreneurs: A New Research Perspective on Contemporary African Migration (with Michaela Pelican). Urban Anthropology, vol. 43, no. 1, 2, 3, pp. 1-16.
Global African Entrepreneurs: A New Research Perspective on Contemporary African Migration
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