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Professor of Islamic History
Department Chair, Near Eastern Studies

• Affiliation(s)

  • Chair, Department of Near Eastern Studies

• Fields of Study

  • Poverty and charity in the Islamic Middle East (600-1100)
  • Arabia at the rise of Islam
  • Redistributive practices in Arabia
  • GIS mapping of pre- and early Islamic Arabia

• Education

  • 1987 Ph.D., Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University