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Oriental Institute
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ABOUT
2012 MESA President
Major Publications: The Early Islamic Conquests (Princeton, 1981); Narratives of Islamic Origins: the beginnings of Islamic historical writing (Darwin, 1998); Muhammad and the Believers: at the origins of Islam (Harvard, 2010); The Expansion of the Islamic state (editor; Ashgate, 2008); The Articulation of the Early Islamic State (editor; Ashgate, 2012); The History of al-Tabari, vol. X: The conquest of Arabia (translator; SUNY, 1993).
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
7th-13th Centuries
Arabic
Historiography
Islamic Law
Islamic Studies
Medieval
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Arabian Peninsula
Syria
The Levant
Specialties
Islamic Origins
Qur'anic Stds
Arabic Papyrology
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
French (advanced)
German (fluent)
Persian (elementary)
Spanish (intermediate)
Turkish (elementary)
Syriac (elementary)
Latin (intermediate)
Greek (elementary)
Education
PhD
| 1975
| Near Eastern Studies
| Princeton U
MA
| 1973
| Near Eastern Studies
| Princeton U
BA
| 1968
| Oriental Studies
| Princeton U
Abstracts
Qur'anicization of Religio-Political Discourse in the Umayyad Period
Was Marwan ibn al-Hakam the First Real Muslim?
