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Notes on Jonathan P. Berkey

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  • Associate Professor Department of History Davidson College, Davidson, North Carolina 28036 
  • Berkey Personal.Page 
  • Williams College, B.A. (1981) 
  • Princeton University, M.A. (1986), Ph.D. (1989)
  • Berkey, Jonathan P. "Education and Society: Higher Religious Learning in Late Medieval Cairo" Ph.D. diss., Princeton University, 1989.
  • Berkey, Jonathan P. "Circumcision Circumscribed: Female Excision and Cultural Accomodation in the Medieval Near East" in IJMES. Vol. 28. 1996. 19-38.
  • Berkey, Jonathan P. "Review of Knowledge and Social Practice in Medieval Damascus, 1190-1350, by Michael Chamberlain" in The American Historical Review. Vol. 101: No. 4. 1996. 1254-1256.
  • Berkey, Jonathan P. "Review of al-Harakah al-`Ilmiyah fi Misr fi Dawlat al-Mamalik al-Jarakisah, by Muhammad Kamal al-Din `Izz al-Din" in al-`Usur al-Wustá: The Bulletin of Middle East Medievalists. Vol. 5: No. 1. April 1993. 20.
  • Berkey, Jonathan P. "'Silver Threads among the Coal': A Well-Educated Mamluk of the Ninth/Fifteenth Century" in SI. Vol. 73. 1991. 109-125.
  • Berkey, Jonathan P. "Tradition, Innovation and the Social Construction of Knowledge in the Medieval Islamic Near East" in Past and Present. Vol. no. 146. 1995. 38-65.
  • Berkey, Jonathan P. "Review of Popular Culture in Medieval Cairo, by Boaz Shoshan" in The American Historical Review. Vol. 100: No. 5. 1995. 1637.
  • Berkey, Jonathan P. "Review of The Lion of Egypt: Sultan Baybars I and the Near East in the Thirteenth Century, by Peter Thorau, and translated by Peter M. Holt" in JARCE. Vol. 113: No. 2. 1993. 208-209.
  • Berkey, Jonathan P. "Review of Islamic Law and the State: The Constitutional Jurisprudence of Shihab al-Din al-Qarafi, by Sherman A. Jackson" in MSR. Vol. 2. 1998. 225-229.
  • Berkey, Jonathan P. "Storytelling, Preaching, and Power in Mamluk Cairo" in MSR. Vol. 4. 2000. 53-73.
  • Berkey, Jonathan P. "Review of Protectors or Praetorians? The Last Mamluk Sultans and Egypt's Waning as a Great Power, by Carl F. Petry" in Middle East Studies Association Bulletin. Vol. 31: No. 1. 1997. 86-87.
  • Berkey, Jonathan P. The Transmission of Knowledge in Medieval Cairo: A Social History of Islamic Education. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992.
  • Berkey, Jonathan P. "Mamluks and the World of Higher Islamic Education in Medieval Cairo, 1250-1517" in Modes de transmission de la culture religieuse en Islam. Elboudrari, Hassan (edited by). Cairo: Institut français d'archéologie orientale, 1993. 93-116.
  • Berkey, Jonathan P. "Women and Islamic Education in the Mamluk Period" in Women in Middle Eastern History. Keddie, Nikki R. (edited by). New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991. 143-157. Review see Celik; Lindisfarne-Tapper.
  • Berkey, Jonathan P. "Culture and Society during the Late Middle Ages" in The Cambridge History of Egypt. Vol.1: Islamic Egypt, 640-1517. Petry, Carl F. (edited by). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 375-411.
  • Berkey, Jonathan P. "The Mamluks as Muslims: The Military Elite and the Construction of Islam in Medieval Egypt" in The Mamluks in Egyptian Politics and Society. Philipp, Thomas (edited by). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 163-173.
  • Leslie P. Peirce. The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire. Review by Jonathan P. Berkey, pg. 560. THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW VOLUME 100, NO. 2, APRIL 1995.
  • Medieval Lecture Series - The 1997-98 medieval lecture series, "Back to School in the Middle Ages: Students, Teachers and the Classroom," continues with "Education and Medieval Islamic Culture: Learning is Prescribed for Us All," on Friday, March 13, by Jonathan P. Berkey of Davidson College, Crown Center, LSC.
  • Religion and Society in the Near East, 600-1800 (contracted with Cambridge
    University Press)
  • Popular Preaching and Religious Authority in the Medieval Islamic Near East
    (University of Washington Press, forthcoming, 1999) 
  • The Transmission of Knowledge in Medieval Cairo: A Social History of Islamic
    Education (Princeton University Press, 1992)
  • “Al-Zarnudji,” Encyclopaedia of Islam (E. J. Brill, forthcoming) 
  • “Egypt,” in Medieval Trade, Travel, and Exploration: An Encyclopedia, ed. John Friedman and Kristen Figg (Garland Publishing Co., forthcoming) 
  • “Storytelling, Preaching, and Power in Mamluk Cairo,” Mamluk Studies Review 4 (1999), 1-21 
  • “Women in Medieval Islamic Society,” in Women and Medieval Culture, ed. Linda E. Mitchell (Garland Publishing Co., 1999), 95-111 
  • “Culture and Society in the Late Middle Ages,” Cambridge History of Egypt, vol. 1: Islamic Egypt, 640-1517, ed. Carl Petry (Cambridge University Press, 1998), 375-411 
  • “Tadris,” Encyclopaedia of Islam (E. J. Brill, 1998) vol. IX, 80-2 
  • “The Mamluks as Muslims: The Military Elite and the Construction of Islam in Medieval Egypt,” in TheMamluks in Egyptian Politics and Society, ed. Ulrich Haarmann and Thomas Philipp (CambridgeUniversity Press, 1998), 161-73 
  • “Circumcision Circumscribed: Female Excision and Cultural Accommodation in the Medieval Near East," International Journal of Middle East Studies 28 (1996), 19-38 
  • “Tradition, Innovation and the Social Construction of Knowledge in the Medieval Islamic Near East,” Past and Present 146 (1995), 38-65 
  • “Mamluks and the World of Higher Education in Medieval Cairo, 1250-1517,” in Modes de transmission de la culture réligieuse en Islam (Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale au Caire, 1993), 93-116 
  • “Women and Education in the Mamluk Period,” in Women in Middle Eastern History: Shifting Boundaries in Sex and Gender, ed. Nikki Keddie and Beth Baron (Yale University Press, 1992), 143-57 


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