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Najam Haider
Barnard College
Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact

Washington DC 20036
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
Islamic Studies
Middle East/Near East Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Specialties
Dev Of Islamic Law Sch
Early Hadith Collections
Early Islamic Hist
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
French (intermediate)
German (intermediate)
Persian (intermediate)
Urdu
Education
PhD | 2007 | Near Eastern Studies | Princeton
MA | 2000 | Or Stds | Oxford U
Abstracts
Authority at the Margins: The Importance of Public Affirmations of Sectarian Identity in K?fa from the 2nd/8th to the 4th/10th Century The Post-Rebellion Life of Yahya b. ‘Abd Allah (d. 187/802-3) The Houthi Revolt: The Revival of Traditional Zaydism in Republican Yemen (1962-2015) The Myth of Margins: Mapping Shi'i Historiography Making an Imam: The Rebellion of Yahya b. ‘Abd Allah in Zaydi Historiography