Middle East and North Africa
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Osama W. Abi-Mershed
Research Interests: Middle East, North Africa and Western Mediterranean (medieval and modern), Muslim Spain, Colonial Algeria, Colonial education, Modern France, Franco-Maghribi relations
Selected Publications:
- Apostles of Modernity: Saint-Simonians and the French Civilizing Mission in Algeria. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2010
- "Degrees of Interpretive Autonomy: Ijtihad and the Constraints of Competence and Context in Late Medieval Tilimsan." Journal of Islam and Muslim-Christian Relations 13.2 (2002): 151-161
- "The Second Algerian Crisis, 1992-1994: Algeria in the Memory of France." Arab Studies Journal 7.1 (1999): 8-33.
Gabor Ágoston
Research Interests: Ottoman Empire, Turkey, Early Modern Military History
Selected Publications:
Gábor Ágoston, Osmanli'da Strateji ve Askerî Güc, Timas Yayinlari, Istanbul 2012
Gábor Ágoston and Bruce Masters, eds., Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire, New York: Facts On File, 2009
Guns for the Sultan: Military Power and the Weapons Industry in the Ottoman Empire. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2005
Research Interests: Modern Turkey, Ottoman Empire, Middle East
Selected Publications:
- Harb-i Umumi Esiginde: Osmanli Son Savasina Nasil Girdi? Istanbul: Bilgi University Press, 2010. Turkish Edition of Ottoman Road to War
- Ottoman Road to War in 1914: The Ottoman Empire and the First World War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, December 2008 (Paperback 2010).
Yvonne H. Haddad
Research Interests: Islam in the Twentieth Century, Muslims in North America, Qur'an and Qur'anic Exegesis, Christian-Muslim Relations, Women in Islam, Intellectual, Social, and Political History in the Arab World, Christians in the Arab World
Selected Publications:
- Becoming American? The Forging of Arab and Muslim Identity in Pluralist America Waco: Baylor University Press, 2011
- Yvonne Haddad, Farid Senzai and Jane I. Smith. Educating the Muslims of America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009
- Yvonne Haddad, Jane I. Smith and Kathleen Moore. Muslim Women in America, Gender, Islam, and Society. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006
Judith Tucker
Research Interests: Middle East and Egypt, Women & Gender, Ottoman
Selected Publications:
- Women, Family, and Gender in Islamic Law, Cambridge University Press, 2008
- In the House of the Law: Gender and Islamic Law in Ottoman Syria and Palestine. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.
- Women in Nineteenth Century Egypt, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
John O. Voll
Research Interests: Islamic Movements, World History
Selected Publications:
- The World in the Eighteenth Century. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.
- John Voll and John L. Esposito. Makers of Contemporary Islam. New York City: Oxford University Press, 2001.
- John Voll and John L. Esposito. Islam and Democracy. New York City: Oxford University Press, 1996.
- John Voll. Islam: Continuity & Change in the Modern World. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1994.
