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He has taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses (though latterly focusing on postgraduate teaching and research) across the whole thematic range of Arab and Islamic historical studies, medieval and modern, at the
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viewpoints. A new version was released on August 7, 2009, also examining "the discourse surrounding Islamism and irrationalism after 9/11."
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1993: The Republican Order of Merit, for services to Arab culture, was conferred by the former President of Tunisia,
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wrote that “Aziz Al-Azmeh is perhaps the most original thinker on these themes in Britain today."
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was released on October 17, 1996. The book explores the history of interaction between
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raises urgent questions that are central to the concerns of the contemporary world.”
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He has served on the editorial boards of several academic journals, including the
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Muslim Kingship: Power and the Sacred in Muslim, Christian and Pagan Polities
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The Times of History: Universal Topics in Islamic Historiography
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The Emergence of Islam in Late Antiquity: Allah and His People
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The Relevance and Irrelevance of Muslim Political Traditions
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academic and professor at the Department of History,
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Damascus
Syria
Islamic culture
Islamic history
Islams and Modernities
Arabic
Syrian
Central European University
Vienna
Austria
Islams and Modernities
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali
Damascus
Syria
D.Phil.
Oriental Studies
St Antony's College, Oxford
Albert Hourani
University of Tübingen
University of Pennsylvania
Central European University
American University of Beirut
Yale University
Columbia University
University of Exeter
Cornell University
University of Oxford
University of California, Berkeley
Georgetown University
Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations

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