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Astrid Meier <asmeier@access.unizh.ch> University of Zurich History of the Ottoman Empire, history of Islamic law in theory and practice, waqf studies, urban history of Middle Eastern cities |
| Address: | History Department University of Zurich Karl-Schmid-Strasse 50 Zurich, Zurich 8006 Switzerland |
| Primary Phone: | ++41 44 634 38 62 |
| List Affiliations: | Review Editor for H-Soz-u-Kult |
| Reviews: | E. Fuchs u.a. (Hgg.): Across Cultural Borders J. A. Reilly: A Small Town in Syria R. Burns: Damascus. A History B. Schaebler u.a. (Hrsg.): Globalization and the Muslim World N. Lafi (Hrsg.): Municipalités méditerranéennes J. P. Arnason u.a. (Hrsg.): Islam in Process U. Makdisi u.a. (Hrsg): Memory and Violence in the Middle East C. Schumann (Hrsg.): Liberal Thought in the Eastern Mediterranean D. Sajdi (Hrsg.): Ottoman Tulips, Ottoman Coffee |
| Interests: | African American History / Studies Anthropology Asian History / Studies Research and Methodology Sociology Urban History / Studies Women, Gender, and Sexuality World History / Studies |
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Bio: 1994 Ph.D. University of Zurich, Modern History since then teaching various courses, mainly on Middle Eastern history, but also on Islam in Europe, slavery in global history, historiography etc. current research: history of waqf practice in Ottoman Damascus, family history, historiography Publications: Hunger und Herrschaft. Vorkoloniale und frühe koloniale Hungerkrisen im Nordtschad. (Beiträge zur Kolonial- und Überseegeschichte 62, zugleich Diss. Universität Zürich 1994) Stuttgart 1995. Artikel "Waqf in Syria to 1914", in: Encyclopedia of Islam (EI2), Supplement, fasc. 11-12, Leiden 2004, 823-828. Perceptions of a New Era? Historical Writing in Early Ottoman Damascus, in: Arabica 51.4 (2004), 419-434. |
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