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Sumaiya A. Hamdani
George Mason University
Occupation
Associate Professor
Contact
Secondary Phone: (703) 993-1250
Fax: 703-993-1251
Department of History & Art History
George Mason University 4400 University Drive
Fairfax VA 22030
United States
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
7th-13th Centuries
Arab Studies
Arabic
Gender/Women's Studies
Islamic Law
Islamic Studies
Middle East/Near East Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Egypt
Islamic World
Maghreb
Mashreq
Specialties
Islamic Law
Med Islamic Hist-Fatimid Hist
Shiism
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
French (intermediate)
Hebrew (elementary)
Education
PhD | 1995 | NE Stds | Princeton U
MA | 1989 | NE Stds | Princeton U
BA | 1984 | Sch of For Srvc | Georgetown U
Abstracts
Imamate and Caliphate: an Ismaili Shii Response to State Practice in Islam Personal Collections and Confessional Identities: The Private Libraries of Ismaili Scholars