Adam Sabra is Professor of History and King Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud Chair in Islamic Studies at the
University of California, Santa Barbara
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.
Early life
Sabra received his Ph.D. from
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the n ...
in 1998.
Adam Sabra.
Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara. Retrieved 28 November 2015.
Career
Adam Sabra is professor and King Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud Chair in Islamic Studies at the University of California.
Selected publications
*''Poverty and Charity in Medieval Islam: Mamluk Egypt, 1250-1517''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
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, 2000 (paperback edition)
*With Roxani Eleni Margariti and Petra M. Sijpesteijn (eds.), ''Histories of the Middle East: Studies in Middle Eastern Society, Economy and Law in Honor of A. L. Udovitch''. Leiden: Brill, 2010.
*With Richard J. McGregor (eds.), ''Le développement du soufisme en Égypte à l’époque mamlouke''. Cairo: Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale
The Institut français d'archéologie orientale (or IFAO), also known as the French Institute for Oriental Archaeology in Cairo, is a French research institute based in Cairo, Egypt, dedicated to the study of the archaeology, history and language ...
, 2006.
*“Ibn Hazm’s Literalism: A Critique of Islamic Legal Theory,” in ''al-Qantara'', XXVIII/1 (enero-junio 2007), pp. 7–40, XXVIII/2 (julio-diciembre 2007), pp. 307–348.
*''The Guidebook for Gullible Jurists and Mendicants to the Conditions for Befriendig Emirs and, The Abbreviated Guidebook for Gullible Jurists and Mendicants to the Conditions for Befriendig Emirs'' by ‘Abd al-Wahhāb ibn Aḥmad ‘Alī al-Sha‘rānī
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
21st-century American historians
21st-century American male writers
University of California, Santa Barbara faculty
American historians of Islam
Princeton University alumni
American male non-fiction writers
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