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Nathan Hofer
University of Missouri
Occupation
Associate Professor
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ABOUT
A child of the desert, stranded in the Midwest, institutionalized by academia and unfit for other work.
Discipline
Religious Studies/Theology
Sub Areas
Islamic Studies
Mamluk Studies
Medieval
Theory
Mysticism/Sufi Studies
Historiography
Political Economy
Geographic Areas of Interest
Egypt
Syria
Iraq
Specialties
Political Economy Of Military Patronage States
Historical Materialist Approach To Sufism
Trying To Bring Class Analysis To Islamic Studies
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
Hebrew (advanced)
Education
PhD | 2011 | Religion | Emory University
MA | 2005 | Jewish Studies | Emory University
Abstracts
Abu l-Hasan al-Shadhili and the Institutionalization of Sufi Identity Bureacratic Sufism in the Ayyubid and Mamluk Sultanates