Occupation
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Contact
Institute for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Societies (University of Bern)
Bern
Lerchenweg 36
3012
Switzerland
ABOUT
Dr. Omar Anchassi is part of the SNSF-financed research project TraSIS (PI Prof. Dr. Serena Tolino, 2022-2026).
His contribution to TraSIS focuses on the historical development of the legal categories of the umm al-walad, mukātaba and kafāla in non-Sunnī juristic thought. In addition to his research for TraSIS, Omar is also currently writing a book on the reception of modern astronomy (al-haʾya al-jadīda) by ʿulamāʾ from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries.
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
All Time Periods
Andalusi Studies
Classical
Colonialism
History Of Science
Gender/Women's Studies
World History
South Asian Studies
Islamic Law
Islamic Studies
Islamic Thought
Ottoman Studies
Mamluk Studies
Modernization
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Ottoman Empire
Islamic World
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
English (native)
Education
DPhil
| 2016
| History
| University of London (Queen Mary)
MA (Hons)
| 2012
| History (Intellectual History)
| University of London (UCL and QMUL)
BA
| 2010
| Humanities (BA English Literature and History)
| University of London (Queen Mary)
Abstracts
‘…So their lineages are not cut off’: the Reframing and Reformulation of the Legal Discourse on Slavery and Slave-Concubinage from the mid-Nineteenth to the mid-Twentieth Centuries
