Charles Philip Issawi (; 1916 – 2000) was an Egyptian-born economist and historian of the Middle East at

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in the United States. Roger Owen, the A. J. Meyer Professor of Middle East History at Harvard, stated that Issawi, "was the father of the study of the modern economic history of the Middle East."Charles P. Issawi, 84, Dies; Studied Mideast Economics
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Life

Issawi was born in 1916 in Cairo, Egypt, to

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parents.Princeton University Professor Charles P. Issawi, Middle East scholar, dies
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, and read philosophy, politics, and economics at

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. He worked for the Egyptian government from 1937 to 1943. Issawi taught at the

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from 1943 to 1947. He joined

in 1951 and became the Ragnar Nurkse Professor of Economics. He also was the director of the Near and Middle East Institute at Columbia. From 1975 until he retired in 1986, he was the Bayard E. Dodge Professor of Near Eastern Studies at

. From 1987 to 1991, he was an adjunct professor of economics at

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Death

Charles Issawi died on December 8, 2000, at the age of 84.

Books

*''Egypt: Egypt: An Economic and Social Analysis'' (1947) *''Egypt at Mid-Century'' (1954) *''Egypt in Revolution: an economic analysis'' (Greenwood Press, 1963) *''The Economic History of the Middle East 1800–1914. A book of readings.'' (University of Chicago Press, 1966) *''The economic history of Iran, 1800–1914'' (University of Chicago Press, 1971) *''Issawi's Laws of Social Motion'' (Hawthorn Books, 1973) *''Oil, the Middle East, and the world'' (Library Press, 197) *''History of the Middle East and North Africa'' (Columbia University Press, 1982)

References

External links

* Wolfgang G. Schwanitz
''In memoriam Charles Philip Issawi''
In: ''Orient'', 43 (2002) 2, 167–171. 1916 births 2000 deaths Victoria College, Alexandria alumni Columbia University faculty Princeton University faculty Egyptian historians 20th-century Egyptian economists Egyptian expatriates in the United States Academic staff of the American University of Beirut Egyptian people of Syrian descent Syrian academics 20th-century Syrian economists Syrian economists Levantine-Egyptians Egyptian economists Greek Orthodox Christians from Syria Greek Orthodox Christians from Egypt {{Egypt-historian-stub