Department of History of Art and Archaeology
Emeritus Professor Doris Behrens-Abouseif
You are viewing:
Key information
Key information
- Roles
- Department of History of Art and Archaeology Emeritus Professor Advisory Board Member Member, SOAS Food Studies Centre Academic Advisory Board
- Department
- Department of History of Art and Archaeology
- Qualifications
- MA: American University in Cairo BA PhD (Hamburg) HABIL (Freiburg)
- Email address
- da30@soas.ac.uk
Biography
From 2000-2014: Nasser D Khalili Chair of Islamic Art and Archaeology at SOAS,
Member of the Academia Europaea.
Her list of publications covers a wide range of subjects from the early period to the 19th century with focus on Egypt and Syria: The history of Islamic architecture and decorative arts, urbanism, waqf (pious endowments), Islamic cultural history, concepts of aesthetics and Orientalism. She is currently working on a book about Mamluk libraries, scribes and book markets.
Among her books:
- Egypt’s Adjustment to Ottoman Rule, Leiden/ New York/Köln 1994
- Beauty in Arabic Culture, Princeton 1999.
- Cairo of the Mamluks, London/Cairo 2007
- The Minarets of Cairo, London/Cairo 2010
- Practicing Diplomacy in the Mamluk Sultanate:Gifts and Material Culture in the Medieval Islamic World, London 2014
