Contributors
- Contributors
Ahmad Dallal is a professor of history in the Department of History and Archeology at the American University of Beirut, where he served as provost from 2009 to 2015. He previously served as chair of the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Georgetown University and held positions at Smith College, Yale University, and Stanford University. His academic training and research cover the history of the disciplines of learning in Muslim societies, including both the exact and the traditional sciences, as well as early modern and modern Islamic thought and movements. His publications cover the history of science, Islamic revivalist thought, and Islamic law.
Lara Deeb is a professor of anthropology at Scripps College and the author of An Enchanted Modern: Gender and Public Piety in Shi'i Lebanon (Princeton University Press, 2006). She is the coauthor, with Mona Harb, of Leisurely Islam: Negotiating Geography and Morality in Shi'ite South Beirut (Princeton University Press, 2013) and, with Jessica Winegar, of Anthropology's Politics: Disciplining the Middle East (Stanford University Press, 2016).
Mamadou Diouf is the Leitner Family Professor of African Studies and History and director of Columbia University's Institute for African Studies. He headed the Department of Research, Information, and Documentation at the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa and was a faculty member in the Department of History at Cheikh Anta Diop University (Senegal). His publications include the edited volumes Les Arts de la citoyenneté au Sénégal: Esapces contestés et civilités urbaines (Karthala, 2013) and Tolerance, Democracy, and Sufis in Senegal (Columbia University Press, 2013), as well as The Arts of Citizenship in African Cities: Infrastructures and Spaces of Belonging, coedited with Rosalind Fredericks (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) and New Perspectives on Islam in Senegal: Conversion, Migration, Wealth, Power, and Femininity, coedited with Mara Leichtman (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009). He is currently the chair of the board of directors of the US Social Science Research Council and the president of the scientific committee of the Réseau Français des Instituts d'Etudes Avancées.
Marion Dixon is a faculty member in the School of International Service at American University in Washington, DC. Her research focuses on agriculture and food system change in the Middle East and North Africa, and she is currently working on a book manuscript titled preliminarily "The Making of a Corporate Agrifood System in Egypt."
Khaled Fahmy is a professor in the Department of History, American University in Cairo. He is currently the Shawwaf Visiting Professor of Modern Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University. He is the author of All the Pasha's Men: Mehmed Ali, His Army and the Making of Modern Egypt (Cambridge University Press, 1997) and Bodies of Law: Science, Religion and State Building in Modern Egypt (University of California Press, 2017).
Syed Nomanul Haq is a professor of the social sciences and liberal arts and the program adviser at the Institute of Business Administration, Karachi, Pakistan. He is the founder and general editor of the Studies in Islamic Philosophy series of Oxford University Press and senior editor of Critical Muslim; in the past he has served as a standing faculty member at Brown and at the University of Pennsylvania. His research interests lie in the field of Islamic intellectual history, including the history of literature.
Wang Hui is a professor of literature and history and the director of Tsinghua Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing. His main interests are Chinese intellectual history, literary history, and social and political theory. His publications, including the four-volume book The Rise of Modern Chinese Thought, are mainly in Chinese, but many have been translated into different languages, of which five in English are available: China's New Order: Society, Politics, and Economy in Transition (Harvard University Press, 2003), The End of the Revolution: China and the Limits of Modernity (Verso, 2009), The Politics of Imagining Asia (Harvard University Press, 2011), China from Empire to Nation-State (Harvard University Press, 2014), and China's Twentieth Century: Revolution, Retreat, and the Road to Equality (Verso, 2016). [End Page 181]
Jennifer Lee Johnson is an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology...
