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Simon Conrad
Princeton University
Occupation
Graduate Student (Doctoral)
Contact
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Arab Studies
Classical
Colonialism
Historiography
Translation
Mysticism/Sufi Studies
Transnationalism
Islamic Thought
Middle East/Near East Studies
South Asian Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Arab States
Egypt
Fertile Crescent
India
Iran
Islamic World
Languages
Arabic (fluent)
German (native)
English (native)
French (intermediate)
Persian (intermediate)
Hindi (elementary)
Urdu (elementary)
Swedish (elementary)
Education
MA | 2019 | Near Eastern Studies | Princeton University
MA | 2016 | History | Free University of Berlin
BA | 2015 | Asian & Middle Eastern Studies | University of Cambridge
Abstracts
Mysticism comes to School: Abu al-‘Ila ‘Afifi and the Academic Study of ‘tasawwuf’ in 20th century Egypt "The Total Man" (al-Insan al-Kamil) in Mid-Century Egyptian Thought