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William Sherman
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Occupation
Graduate Student (Doctoral)
Contact
Discipline
Religious Studies/Theology
Sub Areas
Mysticism/Sufi Studies
13th-18th Centuries
History Of Religion
Arabic
Persian
Geographic Areas of Interest
Central Asia
Afghanistan
Iran
Islamic World
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
Persian (advanced)
French (intermediate)
Hindi (elementary)
Education
MA | 2011 | Near Eastern Languages and Cultures | UCLA
BA | 2009 | Religious Studies | Stanford University
Abstracts
A City between the Pen and the Grave: The Geographical Imagination of Ibn Tulun's History of al-Salihiya The Maliks in the Mountains: Afghan Genealogies, Historical Imagination, and Empire