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 Rifa'at
Abou-El-Haj
Professor
Ph.D., Princeton University
Modern Near East, Europe
R. A. Abou-El-Haj's
major interests are early modern, modern European, Near Eastern and North
African history with an emphasis on political economy, culture, the study
of comparative history, comparative historiography, and the critical evaluation
of postmodernism and post-colonial studies. His research interests and publications
are in the history of the Ottoman Turks and the Arabs and their cultures.
He is the author of two books, co-editor and contributor to a third book,
twenty-five articles, and thirty book reviews. Abou-El-Haj's teaching interests
are focused on the social processes that produce multi-cultural societies
where differences are mutually forged and symbiotically achieved for the
purposes of minimizing and resolving conflict.
Recent
or current undergraduate courses:
- Twentieth
Century Wars and Their Effect on Women and Children
- Colonialism
and Imperialism
- Wars
and Revolutions of the Twentieth Century
Recent or current graduate courses:
- Civil Society
and Modernity
- Formation of the
Modern State
- Explorations in
Comparative History
- Politics, History
& Location (Team taught with Professor William Haver)
Significant
Publications
Books:
- The Formation
of the Modern State: The Ottoman Empire Sixteenth through Eighteenth
Centuries,
IMGE Kitabevi (Ankara, 2000). Translation into Turkish.
- Formation
of the Modern State: The Ottoman Empire Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries,
SUNY Press, 1992.
- Ottoman Power
and Urban Structure, co-editor with I. Bierman and D. Preziosi,
Caratzas Press, 1992.
- The Rebellion
of 1703 and the Structure of Ottoman Politics, Leiden, 1984.
Recent
Articles:
- "How the
Ottoman Elite Reproduces Itself in Sixteenth Century Ottoman Jerusalem,"
in Frauen, Bilder and Gelehrte - Studien zu Gesellschaft and Kunsten
im Osmanischen Reich. Ed. Christoph K. Neumann (Istanbul, 2002).
- Chapter, "Historiogaphy
in South West-Asian and North African Studies since Sa'id's Orientalism,
1978," in History After the Three Worlds: Post-Eurocentric
Historiographies. Eds. Arif Dirlik, Vinay Bahl & Peter Gran.
(Rowman & Littlefield, 2000).
- "Social Uses
of the Past: Arab Historiography of the Ottoman Era," The
International Journal for Middle East Studies, May 1982. Also
appeared in French under the title, "Identite et Histoire: leur utilisation
sociale dans l'historiographie Arabe," Maghreb-Machrek, (Paris)
September, 1982.
- "The Ottoman
Vezir-Pasha Households," Journal of the American Oriental
Society, 1974.
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