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.
Poverty and charity, legal history, family history, Islamic mysticism
A Nobility of the Spirit: Lineage Household, and State in Ottoman Egypt (1517-1800)
- 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.
Click here for more. - 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.
- The Guidebook for Gullible Jurists and Mendicants to the Conditions for Befriending Emirs and, The Abbreviated Guidebook for Gullible Jurists and Mendicants to the Conditions for Befriending Emirs by ‘Abd al-Wahhāb ibn Aḥmad ibn ‘Alī al-Sha‘rānī
Click here for more. - مناقب السادة البكريّة: مجموعة نصوص
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Cleveland Bayard Dodge Distinguished Visiting Professor, American University in Cairo, 2014-15
Member, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, 2012 – 13
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, American Research Center in Egypt