Khaled Fahmy
Khaled Fahmy (Arabic: خالد فهمي) is an historian and the Edward Keller Professor of North Africa and the Middle East at Tufts University.
Biography
[edit]In 2010, Fahmy returned to Egypt where he was a professor in the Department of History at the American University in Cairo.[1] In 2014-2015 he was an Arcapita Visiting Professor at the Middle East Institute, Columbia University.[citation needed] In 2015-2016 he was the Shawwaf Visiting Professor in Modern Middle East History at Harvard University.[2] After serving as His Majesty Sultan Qaboos Bin Sa’id Professor of Modern Arabic Studies, and a Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge, he moved to Tufts University in 2022.
Publications
[edit]Fahmy's dissertation on the social history of the army of Mehmed Ali Pasha was later published by Cambridge University Press under the title All the Pasha's Men: Mehmed Ali: His Army and the Making of Modern Egypt.[3] An Arabic translation was published by Dar al-Shorouk. This was followed by a Turkish translation published by Bilgi University Press under the title Paşa'nın Adamları:Kavalalı Mehmed Ali Paşa, Ordu ve Modern Mısır.[4]
Fahmy also wrote a biography of Mehmed Ali Pasha that appeared in the Makers of the Muslim World Series published by Oneworld Publications under the title of Mehmed Ali: From Ottoman Governor to Ruler of Egypt.[5] He published a collection of articles in Arabic on the history of law and medicine in nineteenth-century that appeared under the title " الجسد والحداثة: الطب والقانون في مصر الحديثة] .[6]
In 2019, he published In Quest of Justice: Islamic Law and Forensic Medicine in Modern Egypt,[7] which was the winner of the 2020 Social History Society Book Prize.[8]
References
[edit]- ^ "KHALED FAHMY". American University of Cairo. Archived from the original on 20 March 2015. Retrieved 13 January 2015.
- ^ "Shawwaf Visiting Professor". Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University.
- ^ "all pashas men on cambridge".
- ^ "Paşa'nın Adamları".
- ^ "Mehmed Ali".
- ^ "الجسد والحداثة: الطب والقانون في مصر الحديثة - أبجد". www.abjjad.com. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04.
- ^ Fahmy, Khaled (February 2023). In Quest of Justice: Islamic Law and Forensic Medicine in Modern Egypt. Univ of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-39561-9.
- ^ Book Prize Winners 2020
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