York University
Thabit A. J. Abdullah



Degrees:  Ph.D., Georgetown University
M.A., Georgetown University
B.A., State University of New York at New Paltz
 
Current Position:  Associate Professor
(Department of History, Arts)
 
Recent Publications: A Short History of Iraq: From 636 to the Present. (Pearson-Longman, 2003).

Merchants, Mamluks and Murder: The Political Economy of Commerce in Eighteenth Century Basra (SUNY Press, 2001)

Edited, Arab and Islamic Studies in Honor of Marsden Jones (Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 1997)

"Some Observations on the Causes for the Decline of Basra's Trade in the Late Eighteenth Century", in Thabit Abdullah, et al, Arab and Islamic Studies in Honor of Marsden Jones (Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 1997): 53-61

 

Courses taught recently:

 

AS/HIST 3791 The Islamic Gunpowder Empires

AS/HIST 3792 The Middle East since 1800

AS/HIST 106-- The Indian Ocean in Pre-Modern Times

AS/HIST 2790 Islamic Civilization
 

Research Interests: Modern and Medieval Iraq; Indian Ocean; Ottoman Empire
 
Awards/Grants:   1997: Oklahoma Foundation for the Humanities Award

1989-1991: Social Science Research Council, Fellow