Jonathan Berkey

Jonathan Porter Berkey is a historian specializing in Islam and the Middle East. He is currently professor of history at Davidson College. He received a bachelor's degree from Williams College, and his doctorate from Princeton University.^[1]

Works

• "The Mamluks as Muslims", The Mamluks in Egyptian politics and society, Editors Thomas Philipp, Ulrich Haarmann, Cambridge University Press, 1998, ISBN 978-0-521-59115-7
• The Transmission of Knowledge in Medieval Cairo: A Social History of Islamic Education, Princeton University Press, 1992, ISBN 978-0-691-03191-0
• Popular Preaching and Religious Authority in the Medieval Islamic Near East, University of Washington Press, 2001, ISBN 978-0-295-98126-0
• The Formation of Islam: Religion and Society in the Near East, 600–1800, Cambridge University Press, 2003, ISBN 978-0-521-58813-3
  • Winner of the Middle Eastern Studies Association's 2003 Albert Hourani Book Award^[2]

References

1. "Jonathan Berkey". Davidson College. Retrieved 18 September 2014.
2. http://www.mesa.arizona.edu/excellence/hourani_winners_list.htm