Ahmed El Shamsy is a professor of
Islamic thought at the
University of Chicago
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.
Biography
Shamsy received his Ph.D. in 2009 from
Harvard University
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. His works examine the historical development of classical Islamic disciplines and academic culture. His studies focus on orality and literacy, the history of the book, and the theory and practice of Islamic law. He has been at the
University of Chicago
The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its main campus is located in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood. The University of Chicago is consistently ranked among the b ...
since 2010.
Works
* ''Rediscovering the Islamic Classics: How Editors and Print Culture Transformed an Intellectual Tradition''
* ''The Canonization of Islamic Law: A Social and Intellectual History''
[Reviews of ''The Canonization of Islamic Law: A Social and Intellectual History'':
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* Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 135, No. 4 (October–December 2015), pp. 843-846
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See also
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Behnam Sadeghi
Behnam Sadeghi (born September 16, 1969) is a scholar of religion and assistant professor of religious studies at Stanford University.
Biography
Sadeghi received his PhD in 2006 from Princeton University. His doctoral dissertation investigated tex ...
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Walid Saleh
References
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University of Chicago faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Harvard University alumni
Scholars of Islamic jurisprudence