Jonathan Porter Berkey is a

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human species; as well as the ...

specializing in

Islam Islam is an Abrahamic religions, Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the Quran, and the teachings of Muhammad. Adherents of Islam are called Muslims, who are estimated to number Islam by country, 2 billion worldwide and are the world ...

and the

Middle East The Middle East (term originally coined in English language) is a geopolitical region encompassing the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant, Turkey, Egypt, Iran, and Iraq. The term came into widespread usage by the United Kingdom and western Eur ...

. He is currently

professor Professor (commonly abbreviated as Prof.) is an Academy, academic rank at university, universities and other tertiary education, post-secondary education and research institutions in most countries. Literally, ''professor'' derives from Latin ...

history History is the systematic study of the past, focusing primarily on the Human history, human past. As an academic discipline, it analyses and interprets evidence to construct narratives about what happened and explain why it happened. Some t ...

at Davidson College. He received a

bachelor's degree A bachelor's degree (from Medieval Latin ''baccalaureus'') or baccalaureate (from Modern Latin ''baccalaureatus'') is an undergraduate degree awarded by colleges and universities upon completion of a course of study lasting three to six years ...

from

Williams College Williams College is a Private college, private liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Williamstown, Massachusetts, United States. It was established as a men's college in 1793 with funds from the estate of Ephraim ...

, and his

doctorate A doctorate (from Latin ''doctor'', meaning "teacher") or doctoral degree is a postgraduate academic degree awarded by universities and some other educational institutions, derived from the ancient formalism '' licentia docendi'' ("licence to teach ...

from

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial ...

. In 2003 he was given the Albert Hourani Book Award by the Middle Eastern Studies Association for his book ''The Formation of Islam: Religion and Society in the Near East, 600–1800''.Albert Hourani Book Award

Works

"The Mamluks as Muslims"
''The Mamluks in Egyptian politics and society'', Editors Thomas Philipp, Ulrich Haarmann, Cambridge University Press, 1998, * ''The Transmission of Knowledge in Medieval Cairo: A Social History of Islamic Education'', Princeton University Press, 1992,
''Popular Preaching and Religious Authority in the Medieval Islamic Near East''
University of Washington Press, 2001, * ''The Formation of Islam: Religion and Society in the Near East, 600–1800'', Cambridge University Press, 2003,

References

Living people Davidson College faculty Williams College alumni Princeton University alumni Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American historians 21st-century American male writers American male non-fiction writers {{US-historian-stub