MESA Banner
Elizabeth Urban
West Chester University
Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
7th-13th Centuries
Arabic
Historiography
World History
Geographic Areas of Interest
Arabian Peninsula
Syria
Iraq
Specialties
Umayyad History
Origins Of Islam
Slavery And Clientage
Languages
Arabic (fluent)
Persian (intermediate)
German (advanced)
French (intermediate)
Education
PhD | 2012 | NELC | University of Chicago
MA | 2006 | NELC | University of Chicago
BA | 2004 | Religious Studies | Rice University
Abstracts
The Foundations of Islamic Society as Expressed by the Qur??nic Term Mawl? The Two Faces of Abu Bakra: What's in an Identity? Text, History, and Communal Identity in Exegeses of Quran 33:4-6 The Practice of Slave-Prostitution in Early Islamic Urban Centers How Free Were the Early Islamic Mawali? Maternal Kinship Ties in Ibn Sa‘d’s Ṭabaqāt Freedwomen in Early Islamic History