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Basil Salem
University of Chicago
Occupation
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Contact
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
Ottoman Studies
Arab Studies
Middle East/Near East Studies
Cultural Studies
Comparative
Islamic Thought
Geographic Areas of Interest
Ottoman Empire
Specialties
Early Modern Ottoman Cultural And Intellectual His
18th/19th Cent. Middle East Cult. Soc. Econ.
Enlightenment Cultural And Intellectual History
Languages
Arabic (native)
French (advanced)
Hebrew (intermediate)
Turkish (intermediate)
Education
PhD | 2016 | History | University of Chicago
MA | 2010 | Center for Middle Eastern Studies | University of Chicago
BA | 2007 | History | Loyola University Chicago
Abstracts
Differing views on eighteenth century muftis of Damascus The Social Category of "'Ulama" in Eighteenth Century Ottoman Damascus Biographical Dictionaries as Emotional Histories: Towards a new reading of biographical writing in eighteenth-century Damascus