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Daniel Martin Varisco
Austrian Academy of Sciences
Occupation
Retired
Contact
22 High Pine
Glen Cove NY 11542
United States
ABOUT
Daniel Martin Varisco is President of the American Institute for Yemeni Studies (2014ff), former editor of Contemporary Islam and Editor-in-Chief of CyberOrient (cyberorient.net), moderator of the academic blog Tabsir (tabsir.net), former head of the Middle East Section of the American Anthropological Association, retired Professor of Anthropology at Hofstra University (1991-2014), Research Professor and Coordinator of Social Science Research at Qatar University (2014-2017). He has published Reading Orientalism: Said and the Unsaid (2007), Islam Obscured: The Rhetoric of Anthropological Representation (2005), Medieval Folk Astronomy and Agriculture in Arabia and the Yemen (1997), Medieval Agriculture and Islamic Science: The Almanac of a Yemeni Sultan (1994) and numerous articles and book reviews. His full cv is available online at http://ahjur.org/dancv.html
Discipline
Anthropology
Sub Areas
13th-18th Centuries
Development
Ethnography
History Of Science
Middle East/Near East Studies
Islamic Studies
Islamic Law
Medieval
Mamluk Studies
Media
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Islamic World
Yemen
Gulf
Arabian Peninsula
Egypt
Qatar
Specialties
Dev Agric & Irrigation
Ethn Of Yemen, Islamic Texts
Orientalism And Islamophobia
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
French (elementary)
German (elementary)
Spanish (intermediate)
Education
PhD | 1982 | Anthro | U of Pennsylvania
MA | 1975 | Anthropology | U of Pennsylvania
BA | 1973 | Archaeology | Wheaton College
Abstracts
Framing the Holy Land as an Art: Illustrations of Arabs in 19th Century Bible Custom Accounts Plowing through Dangling Diacriticals: The Reconstruction of al-Malik al-Ashraf's 13th Century Agricultural Treatise Milh al-malaha The Net Worth of Orientalism: Can Discourse be Hegemonic in Cyberspace? Really and Virtually Armageddon Bound: Online Christian and Muslim Apocalyptic Scenarios Heirs of the Ayyubids: The Formation of the Rasulid State in Yemen Coffee and Qat in Yemen: The Historical and Literary Evidence for their Introduction Sailing with and against the Winds: Navigation in the Red Sea Indian Ocean Network in the Ayyubid, Rasulid and Mamluk Eras Rasulid Sultans and Zaydi Imams: War (Mostly) and Peace (a Little) in Yemen during the 13th-15th centuries Rebuilding Arabia Felix: Will Yemen be Allowed to Develop Itself? A Mid-14th Century Tribal Customary Law Document, Aḥkām al-man‘, from Rasulid Yemen The Late 11th Century CE Almanac Poem of Nashwān b. Sa‘īd al-Ḥimyarī The Microeconomics of Highland Yemeni Agriculture in the Late 13th Century