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B.A. Williams
College;
M.A., Ph.D. Princeton University
Email: joberkey@davidson.edu
Office: 3252 Chambers
Phone: 704-894-2529
Mail: Box 6911, Davidson College, Davidson,
NC 28035-6911 |
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Professor Berkey teaches the full range of Middle Eastern history since the
rise of Islam, and in addition participates in Davidson's Humanities
Program. His research and writing focus on Islamic religious culture and
medieval Egypt and Syria. He is the author of The Transmission of Knowledge
in Medieval Cairo: A Social History of Islamic Education (Princeton
University Press, 1992), and Popular Preaching and Religious Authority in
the Medieval Islamic Near East (University of Washington Press, 2001). Dr.
Berkey’s most recent book, The Formation of Islam: Religion and Society in
the Near East, 600–1800 (Cambridge University Press, 2003), received the top
annual book prize from the Middle East Studies Association (MESA).
Read the article about the prize
and the book from the Davidson College News web site. |
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