Jonathan Berkey

Dr. Jonathan Porter Berkey is Professor of History at Davidson College.^[1][2]

He graduated from Williams College, and from Princeton University with a Ph.D. He has become one of the most respected scholars of the history of Islam and the Middle East.^[3]

Awards

• 2003 Albert Hourani Book Award from the Middle Eastern Studies Association for The Formation of Islam,^[4][5]

Works

• "The Mamluks as Muslims", The Mamluks in Egyptian politics and society, Editors Thomas Philipp, Ulrich Haarmann, Cambridge University Press, 1998, ISBN 9780521591157

• The Transmission of Knowledge in Medieval Cairo: A Social History of Islamic Education, Princeton University Press, 1992, ISBN 9780691031910
• Popular Preaching and Religious Authority in the Medieval Islamic Near East, University of Washington Press, 2001, ISBN 9780295981260
• The Formation of Islam: Religion and Society in the Near East, 600–1800 Cambridge University Press, 2003, ISBN 9780521588133

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