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Adam Sabra

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Pre-Modern Middle East

Professor and King Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud
Chair in Islamic Studies
Ph.D., Princeton University, 1998

My teaching and research focus on the Middle East, especially Egypt, in the medieval and early modern periods. I am particularly interested in the social and cultural history of Cairo. Having previously studied the poor of medieval Cairo, I am currently working on aristocratic families in the period 1500 - 1800. Other areas of interest include legal history and Islamic mysticism.

Research and Teaching Interests

Poverty and charity, legal history, family history, Islamic mysticism

Current Projects

Aristocracy and Empire: A Family History of Ottoman Egypt (1517-1800)
‘Abd al-Wahhab al-Sha‘rani, Irshad al-mughaffalin min al-fuqaha’ wal-fuqara’ ila shurut suhbat al-umara’ and Mukhtasar Irshad al-mughaffalin
Edition of two sixteenth century texts on the relations between Sufi shaykhs and Ottoman politicians
Anthology of texts on Ottoman Egyptian Sufism
Texts pertaining to the history of the Egyptian Bakri family. Co-edited with Mustafa Mughazy

Selected Publications

Poverty and Charity in Medieval Islam: Mamluk Egypt, 1250-1517. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 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.

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With Richard J. McGregor (eds.), Le développement du soufisme en Égypte à l’époque mamlouke. Cairo: Institut français d’archéologie orientale, 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.

Honors and Professional Activities

Member, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, American Research Center in Egypt