Professor Aziz Al-Azmeh B.A.

Bachelor of Arts

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 Hons. (Licence ès Lettres), M.A.

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, D.Phil. (born 24 July 1947) was born in Damascus

Damascus

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, Syria

Syria

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. He received a D.Phil. in Oriental Studies

Oriental studies

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 from St Anthony's College, University of Oxford

University of Oxford

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 (supervised by Albert Hourani

Albert Hourani

-Life and career:Hourani was born in Manchester, England, the son of Soumaya Rassi and Fadlo Issa Hourani, immigrants from Marjeyoun in what is now South Lebanon. His brothers were George Hourani and Cecil Hourani. His family had converted from Greek Orthodoxy...

), having previously attended the University of Tübingen, and the University of Pennsylvania

University of Pennsylvania

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. He has taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses (though latterly focusing on postgraduate teaching and research) across the whole thematic range of Arab and Islamic historical studies, medieval and modern, at the Central European University

Central European University

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, the American University of Beirut

American University of Beirut

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, Yale University

Yale University

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, Columbia University

Columbia University

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, the University of Exeter

University of Exeter

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, Cornell University

Cornell University

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, the University of Oxford

University of Oxford

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, the University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

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 (where he was the Sultan Visiting Professor), Georgetown University

Georgetown University

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, and more recently at the Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations of the Aga Khan University

Aga Khan University

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. He has served on the editorial boards of several academic journals, including the Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies

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. In addition, Professor Al-Azmeh has been invited all over the world for various conferences, talks, seminars, lectures and symposia, including in the following countries: the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 the United States of America, France

France

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, Germany

Germany

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, The Netherlands, Spain

Spain

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, Sweden

Sweden

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, Denmark

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, Italy

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, Hungary

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, Syria

Syria

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, Lebanon

Lebanon

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, Jordan

Jordan

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, Kuwait

Kuwait

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, the United Arab Emirates

United Arab Emirates

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, India

India

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, Pakistan

Pakistan

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, Japan

Japan

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, Singapore

Singapore

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, Morocco

Morocco

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, Egypt

Egypt

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 and Tunisia

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Fellowships

• 1993-94 Nuffield Foundation Fellow in the Social Sciences.
• 1994-5 Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg (Institute of Advanced Study), Berlin.
• 1996-8 Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg (Institute of Advanced Study), Berlin.
• 1998 Fellow of the Swedish Collegium of Advanced Studies, Uppsala.
• 1999 Visiting Scholar, Centre for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge
  University of Cambridge
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• 1999 Directeur de Recherches Associé, Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris.
• 2000 Resident Scholar, Rockefeller Foundation Study Center, Bellagio.
• 2001 Visiting Scholar, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Cambridge
  University of Cambridge
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• 2001 Directeur de Recherches Associé, Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris.
• 2004 Visiting Scholar, Cornell University
  Cornell University
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• 2005 Fellow of the Collegium Budapest (Institute for Advanced Study).

Previous Appointments

• 1980-81 Fellow of the Centre for Near East Studies, American University of Beirut
  American University of Beirut
  The American University of Beirut is a private, independent university in Beirut, Lebanon. It was founded as the Syrian Protestant College by American missionaries in 1866...
  
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• 1981-83 Lecturer in the Faculty of Letters, Kuwait University
  Kuwait University
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• 1983-December 1984 Research Fellow, University of Exeter
  University of Exeter
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• 1985-1996 Sharjah Professor of Islamic Studies, University of Exeter
  University of Exeter
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   (on leave at St. Antony's College, University of Oxford
  University of Oxford
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  , 1989–90, 1993–94 and at the Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin, 1994–95).
• 2000-2002 Zayed Professor of Islamic Studies, Department of History, American University of Beirut
  American University of Beirut
  The American University of Beirut is a private, independent university in Beirut, Lebanon. It was founded as the Syrian Protestant College by American missionaries in 1866...
  
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• 2002 - 2004 Distinguished Visiting Professor, Humanities Center, Central European University
  Central European University
  For other uses, see European University Central European University is a graduate-level, English-language university offering degrees in the social sciences, humanities, law, public policy, business management, environmental science, and mathematics...
  
  , Budapest
  Budapest
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• 2004-2007 Professor, Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University
  Central European University
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Visiting and ad hoc Appointments

• 1993 Professor at the Doctoral Summer School of the Arab Sociological Association (Tunis).
• 1995 Visiting Professor, Center for the Study of Islam and of Muslim-Christian Understanding, Georgetown University
  Georgetown University
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  , Michaelmas Term.
• 1996 Professor at the Postgraduate Summer School of the Arbeitskreis Moderne und Islam (Berlin).
• 1997 Professor at the Sostgraduate Summer School of the Arbeitskreis Moderne und Islam (Berlin).
• 1999 Visiting Professor, Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University
  Columbia University
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  , New York
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  , Michaelmas Term.
• 2000 Visiting Professor, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Yale University
  Yale University
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  , Hilary Term.
• 2000 Professor at the Mediterranean Studies doctoral summer school, Robert Schuman Centre of Advanced Studies, European University Institute
  European University Institute
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  , Florence
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• 2001 Sultan Visiting Professor, University of California, Berkeley
  University of California, Berkeley
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  , Hilary Term.
• 2002 Cleveland Dodge Distinguished Visiting Professor, American University of Cairo, Hilary Term.
• 2004 Professor and Course Co-Director at the Summer University Course on Reconsidering Islamic Reformism, Central European University
  Central European University
  For other uses, see European University Central European University is a graduate-level, English-language university offering degrees in the social sciences, humanities, law, public policy, business management, environmental science, and mathematics...
  
  , Budapest
  Budapest
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• 2004 Professor at the Summer University course on Changing Landscapes of Late Antiquity, Central European University
  Central European University
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  , Budapest
  Budapest
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• 2005 Professor and Course Co-Director of the Summer University Course on Bookish Traditions: The Authority of the Book in Scripturalist Religions, Central European University
  Central European University
  For other uses, see European University Central European University is a graduate-level, English-language university offering degrees in the social sciences, humanities, law, public policy, business management, environmental science, and mathematics...
  
  , Budapest.
• 2008 Visiting Lecturer, Aga Khan University
  Aga Khan University
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  , Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilizations, London
  London
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• 2009 Visiting Lecturer, Aga Khan University
  Aga Khan University
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  , Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilizations, London
  London
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Books

Some of his books:

• Ibn Khaldun
• Secularism in Modern Arab Life and Thought
• Islams and Modernities
• Ibn Taimiyya
• Muhammad Ibn ‘Abd al-Wahhab
• Monotheistic Kingship

Publications

Monographs:

• 1981 Ibn Khaldun in Modern Scholarship, London, Third World Centre for Research and Publishing, pp xxix, 333.
• 1982 Ibn Khaldun: An Essay in Reinterpretation , London, Frank Cass, pp. 176. Paperback edition: London, Routledge, 1990; paperback impression: Cairo, American University of Cairo Press, 1993; 2nd. ed. (hardback and paperback), Budapest, Central European University Press, 2003, pp. 163. Arabic translation by A. Nasif, Beirut, Dar al-Tali‘a 1983; 2nd ed., 1987.
• 1983 Historical Writing and Historical Knowledge: Introduction to the Craft of Historical Writing in Arab-Islamic Culture (in Arabic), Beirut, Dar al-Tali‘a; 2nd ed., 1995; pp. 151.
• 1986 Arabic Thought and Islamic Societies , London, Croom Helm, pp.xii, 295.
• 1991 Arabs and Barbarians: Medieval Arabic Ethnology and Ethnography (in Arabic) - London: Riad El-Rayyes Books, pp. 246.
• 1992 Secularism in Modern Arab Life and Thought (in Arabic) - Beirut, Markaz Dirasat al-Wahda al-`Arabiyya. pp. 378; 2nd edition. *1998; 3rd. ed. 2008. Translations into English (London, al-Saqi books) and French (Paris, Actes Sud/Sindbad) are now in process. Extracts printed in Kitab fi jarida, a syndicated supplement to a number of Arabic newspapers, September, 2008.
• 1997 Muslim Kingship: Power and the Sacred in Muslim, Christian, and Pagan Polities, London: I B Tauris. pp. 296; paperback. edition, 2000. Arabic translation published as al-Malakiyya al-Islamiyya, Damascus, Qudmus Publishers, 2008, p. 374.
• 2000 Secularism: A Dialogue (in Arabic—with `A. al-Masiri), Damascus, Dar al-Fikr al-Mu`asir, pp. 334.
• 2003 Constantine Zureik (in Arabic), Beirut, Institute for Palestine Studies, pp. 297.
• 2004 L'Obscurantisme postmoderne et la question musulmane, Paris, Sindbad-Acted Sud, pp. 55.

Collections of Articles:

• 1987 The Politics and the History of 'Heritage' (in Arabic), Beirut, Dar al-Tali‘a and Casablanca: Manshurat ‘Uyun; 2nd. ed., 1990. pp. 174.
• 1993 Islams and Modernities, London, Verso, pp. 157. A second edition, incorporating two further chapters, appeared in 1996; 197 pp. Third, expanded edition 2009 (pp. 234). Electronic version: New York, Questia Online Library, 2001. German translation by Ulrich Enderwitz as Die Islamisierung des Islam , Frankfurt, Campus Verlag, 1996; 244 pp. Turkish translation by Elcin Gen as Islamlar ve Moderniteler, Istanbul, Iletisim, 2003 (Politika, 45); pp. 278. A French translation is being commissioned by Actes Sud, Paris.
• 1996 Religion and Society in the Contemporary Arab World, (in Arabic) Beirut, Dar al-Tali‘a, pp 232; 2nd revised edition, 2002, pp. 255.
• 2007 The Times of History, with a Foreword by Hayden White, Budapest, Central European University Press; pp. 310.

Edited Books:

• 1988 Islamic Law: Social and Historical Contexts (London: Routledge); 2nd. impression, 1989. Turkish translation by Fethi Gedikli as Sosyal ve Tarihi Baglami Icinde Islam Hukuku, Istanbul, I¤ Yayincilik, 1992.
• 1989 (with Elizabeth Hallam et al.), The Chronicles of the Crusades. Eye-Witness Accounts of the Wars between Christianity and Islam, London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson; repr. Godalming, Bramley, 1996; repr. New York, Welcome Rain Publishers, 2000.
• 1995 (with Fawwaz Trabulsi) Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq: Unknown Works, with an Introduction (in Arabic), Beirut, Riad El-Rayyes Books; pp. 420.
• 2000 Ibn Taimiyya: An Anthology, with an Introduction (in Arabic), Beirut, Riyad al-Rayyes Books; pp. 499.
• 2000 Al-Mawardi: An Anthology, with an Introduction (in Arabic), Beirut, Riad al-Rayyes Books; pp. 333.
• 2000 Muhammad Ibn ‘Abd al-Wahhab: An Anthology, with an Introduction (in Arabic), Beirut, Riad al-Rayyes Books; pp. 151.
• 2000 Ibn Khaldun's History: An Anthology, with an Introduction (in Arabic), Beirut, Riyad al-Rayyes Books; pp. 297.
• 2001 Abu Bakr al-Razi: An Anthology, with an Introduction (in Arabic), Beirut, Riyad El-Rayyes Books, pp. 203.
• 2001 Al-Mas`udi: An Anthology, with an Introduction (in Arabic), Beirut, Riyad El-Rayyes Books, pp. 419
• 2002 Ibn al-Rewandi: An Anthology ,with an Introduction (in Arabic), Beirut, Riad El-Rayyes Books, pp. 139
• 2004 (with Janos Bak), Monotheistic Kingship. The Medieval Variants, Budapest, Central European University Press. pp.
• 2007 (with Effie Fokas), Islam in Europe: Diversity, Identity, Influence, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. pp. 223.

Articles (Arabic, with approximate titles)

• 1981 "Considerations on Contemporary Islamic Movements", Dirasat ‘Arabiyya 17, no.6, pp.48-58.

"The Notion of Cultural Authenticity", Al-Karmel 1, no.2, pp. 80–98.
"The Expression of Orientalist Notions", Al-Mustaqbal al-‘Arabi 32, pp.43-62.
"The Notion of the Political in Islamic Thought", Al-Fikr al-‘Arabi 3, no.22, pp.281-291.

• 1982 "Religion, Culture and the Concept of Ideology", Al-Fikr al-‘Arabi al-Mu‘asir 20-22, pp.25-36.
• 1983 "The Politics and History of 'Heritage'", Dirasat ‘Arabiyya 19, no.8, pp.60-92.
• 1985 "Objective" Marxism and the End of History: A Discussion of the Ideas of Abdallah Laroui', Dirasat ‘Arabiyya 21, no.3, pp.3-27. Reprinted in Autour de la pensée de Abdallah Laroui, ed. B. El Kurdi, Casablanca, Le Centre Culturel Arabe, 2000, pp. 35-62

[All the above articles were reprinted in The Politics and History of 'Heritage'].

• 1986 "The Discourse on the Nation and the Politics of Discourse", Dirasat ‘Arabiyya 23, no.1, pp.52-59.
• 1987 "The Historicity of the Reason and the Critique of Reason", Dirasat ‘Arabiyya 23, no.5, pp.3-20. Reprinted in The Politics and History of 'Heritage'.
• 1990 "Myth, Text, and History", Islam and Modernity (in Arabic - London, Al-Saqi Books), pp. 259–284. Reprinted in Religion and Society in the Contemporary Arab World."Authenticity and its Cognates", Dirasat ‘Arabiyya 26, no. 12, pp.31-52.
• 1993 "Religion and the World in the Arab Present", Dirasat ‘Arabiyya 29, no. 5-6, pp.3-17. Reprinted in Qadaya Fikriyya 13/14 (1993), pp.346-355. French translation as "Le religieux et le temporel dans le present arabe", Revue d'Etudes Palestiniennes 49 (1993), pp. 65–80; German translation as "Imaginäre Welten des Islamismus: Das Religiöse und das Weltliche in der arabischen Gegenwart", Merkur 49, no. 7 (1995), pp 582–594; English translation as “The Religious and the Secular in Contemporary Arab Life”, in the second edition of Islams and Modernities, pp. 458. The Arabic original is reprinted in Religion and Society in the Contemporary Arab World.

"Secularism in the Mashriqi Nahda", Al-Ma‘rifa (Damascus) 32, no.360, pp. 8–27.
"The Islamisation of Knowledge and the Politics of the Irrational", Qadaya Fikriyya 13/14, pp. 407–414.

• 1994 "Secularism and the Transformation of Arab Societies: A Response to Critics", Dirasat ‘Arabiyya 30, no. 11-12, pp 3-19. Reprinted in Religion and Society in the Contemporary Arab World.

"Arab Societies and the Question of Democracy", Al-Nahj 11, no. 37, pp 197–208. Reprinted in Religion and Society in the Contemporary Arab World.

• 1995 "Irrationalism in Modern Arab Thought", Abwab, 4 (Spring), pp 22–35. Reprinted in Religion and Society in the Contemporary Arab World.

"The Renaissance Outsider" (with Fawwaz Traboulsi), Introduction to our edition of Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq: Unknown Works, Beirut, Riad el-Rayyes Books, pp. 7–47.

• 1996 "Tradition and Globalisation", Al-Nahj 6, pp 86–100; reprinted in Religion and Society in the Contemporary Arab World, pp 33–48, and in The Arab World and Alternative Projects for Integration, Beirut, Markaz Dirasat al-Wahda al-`Arabiyya and Cairo, Arab Society for Economic Research, 1997, pp. 87-102.
• 1997 "The Limits of Reformist Discourse", Dirasat ‘Arabiyya 33, no. 9-10, pp. 2-12. Reprinted in Religion and Society, 2nd. ed., pp. 125-138.
• 1998 "History, Arab Nationalism, and Secularism: Constantin Zureik in Counterpoint", Majallat al-Dirasat al-Filastiniyya 35, pp. 3–22. Reprinted in al-Tariq, 60/4(2001), pp. 100–115.
• 1999 "Whither the Nahda ? Politics and the Attrition of Modernism", in Abwab 21, pp. 9–28; also in `Asr al-nahda: muqaddimat libaraliyya lil-hadatha, Beirut. Rene Mu`awwad Foundation and al-Nadi al-Thaqafi al-`Arabi, 2000, pp. 75-95.
• 2001 " Religion, Culture, Political Culture: An Investigation of Current Concepts and Distinctions" (in Arabic), in Abwab, 29, pp. 9–27, reprinted as "Religion, Culture, Political Culture: An Investigation of Concepts and Distinctions" in Religion and Society, 2nd. ed., pp. 66–79. Reprinted in M. Qassis (ed.), Challenges of the New Millennium and the Horizons of Development in the Arab World, Bir Zeit, Bir Zeit University, pp. 22–31.
• 2001 "The Global Environment" (in Arabic) in Towards an Arab Civilisation, Beirut, Markaz Dirasat al-Wahda al-`Arabiyya, Beirut, pp. 167-188 (Discussions and comments: pp. 189-228).
• 2001 "Westernisation and the Emergence of Arab Encyclopaedism in the Nineteenth Century: Butrus al-Bustani", in Al-Nudwa (Amman), 12/2, pp. 32–38.
• 2004 "Ambiguties of Modernity" in Modernity and Arab Modernity, Damascus, Dar Petra, pp. 269–301
• 2007 “Secularism and the Question of Civilisation”, in Secularism in the Arab East: Conference on Secularism in the Arab East. Damascus, May 2007, ed. L. Hussein, Damascus, Petra and Atlas Publishers, pp. 95–107; repr. in Al-Adab, 55/7-9 (2007), pp. 5–12.

Articles (European languages)

• 1976 "What is the Islamic City", Rev. of Middle Eastern Studies 2, pp. 31–52.
• 1976 "The Progressive Forces", in Essays on the Crisis in Lebanon , ed. R. Owen, London, pp. 59–72.
• 1979 "The Muqaddima and Kitab al-‘Ibar; Perspectives from a Common Formula", The Maghreb Review 4, no.1.
• 1981 "The Articulation of Orientalism", in Arab Studies Quarterly 3, pp. 384–402.
• 1984 "L'annalistique entre l'histoire et le pouvoir: Une conception de l'histoire sous-jacente aux chroniques, biographies et gestes dans l'aire culturelle arabo-islamique", Histoire et diversité des cultures, ed. UNESCO, Paris, pp. 95–116. (A Spanish translation appeared under the title Historia y diversidad de las culturas, Barcelona, 1984), pp. 118–143.
• 1986 "Histoire et narration dans l'historiographie arabe", Annales, Economies, Sociétés, Civilizations 41, no. 2, pp. 409–430.
• 1986 "Wahhabite Polity" in Arabia and the Gulf; From Traditional Society to the Modern States, ed. I.R. Netton, London, Croom Helm, pp. 75–90. Reprinted in Aziz Al-Azmeh, Islams and Modernities. London 1993.
• 1987 "Islamic Political Thought" and "Ibn Khaldun", Blackwell's Encyclopedia of Political Thought (Oxford, Blackwell's); Hungarian translation, Budapest, Kossuth, 1995.
• 1988 "The Middle East and Islam: A Ventriloqual Terrorism", Third World Affairs 1987 (London, Third World Foundation), pp. 23–34.
• 1988 "Islamic Legal Theory and the Appropriation of Reality" in Islamic Law: Historical and Social Contexts , ed. A. Al-Azmeh, London, Routledge, pp. 250–265. Turkish translation as "Islam Hukuk Kavrami ve Gercekligin özgülestirilmesi", in Sosyal ve Tarihi Baglami Icinde Islam Hukuku, ed. Aziz El-Azme, translated by Fethi Gedikli, Istanbul, Iz Yayincilik, 1992, pp. 317–336.
• 1988 "Islamism and Arab Nationalism", Review of Middle East Studies 4, pp. 33–51. Reprinted in Islams and Modernities . Turkish translation as "Arap Milliyetiligi ve Islamcilik" in Toplum ve Bilim, (Istanbul), 29/30 (1985), pp 29–43.
• 1988 "Orthodoxy and Hanbalite Fideism", Arabica 35, pp. 253–266.
• 1990 "Utopia in Islamic Political Thought", History of Political Thought 11, pp. 9–20. Reprinted in Islams and Modernities.
• 1991 "The Discourse of Cultural Authenticity: Islamist Revivalism and Enlightenment Universalism", Eliot Deutsch (ed.), Culture and Modernity. East-West Philosophic Perspectives, Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, pp. 468–486. Reprinted in Islams and Modernities.
• 1991 "Islamist Revivalism and Western Ideologies", History Workshop Journal 32, pp. 44–53. Reprinted in Islams and Modernities.
• 1992 "Barbarians in Arab Eyes", Past and Present 134, pp. 3–18.
• 1992 "Muslim Genealogies of Knowledge", History of Religions no. 3, May, pp. 403–411.
• 1992 "Mortal Enemies, Invisible Neighbours: Northerners in Andalusian Eyes", The Legacy of Muslim Spain, edited by Salma Khadra Jayyusi, Leiden, E.J. Brill, pp 259–272; Arabic translation in Al-Hadara al-‘Arabiyya al-Islamiyya f¬'l-Andalus, Beirut, Markaz Dirasat al-Wahda al-‘Arabiyya, 1998, vol. 1, pp. 398-410.
• 1993 "Muslim "Culture' and the European Tribe", in Islams and Modernities, pp. 1–17.

"Islamism and the Arabs" in Islams and Modernities, pp. 18–38.

• 1994 "Populism Contra Democracy: Recent Democratist Discourse in the Arab World", G. Salamé (ed.): Democracy without Democrats, London, I.B. Tauris, pp. 112–129; French translation in Démocraties sans démocrates, Paris, Fayard, 1994, pp 233–252; Arabic translation in Dımuqratiyya min dun dimuqratiyin, Beirut, Markaz Dirasat al-Wahda al-‘Arabiyya, 1995, pp 207-228; German translation in Die Islamisierung des Islam, pp 145-175; Persian translation in Goftegu, 14 , 1375 [1997], pp. 85-107.
• 1994 "Chronophagous Discourse: A Study of the Clerico-Legal Appropriation of the World in a Muslim Tradition", Religion and Practical Reason. New Essays in the Comparative Philosophy of Religions, ed. Frank Reynolds and David Tracey, Albany, State University of New York Press (Chicago Studies in the Philosophy of Religions), pp 163–212. Reprinted in The Times of History.
• 1995 "Rhetoric for the Senses: A Consideration of Muslim Paradise Narratives", Journal of Arabic Literature 26, no. 3, pp 215–231; French translation in La Virilité en Islam, eds. by Fethi Benslama and Nadia Tazi, Paris 1998, pp. 75–90; reprinted, Paris, L’Aube, 2004, pp. 121–146. Reprinted in The Times of History.
• 1995 "Nationalism and the Arabs", Arab Studies Quarterly 17, no. 1-2, pp. 1–18; reprinted in Arab Nation, Arab Nationalism: The Antonius Lectures, ed. D. Hopwood, London, Macmillan, 2000, pp. 63–78. French translation as “Les Arabes, la nation, et le nationalisme”, Revue d’Etudes Palestiniennes, n.s., no. 3 (Spring, 1995), pp. 81–93.
• 1996 "Culturalism, Grand Narrative of Capitalism Exultant", in Islams and Modernities (second edition), pp 17–40. Reprinted in Cross-Cultural Conversation, ed. Anindita Niyogi Balslev, Atlanta, Scholars Press, 1996 (American Academy for Religion, Cultural Criticism Series, no. 5), pp. 77–100.
• 1996 "Muslim Modernism and the Canonical Text”, in Islams and Modernities, 2nd. ed., pp. 101–127; reprinted in Islam and the Challenge of Modernity: Historical and Contemporary Contexts, ed. Sharifa Shifa Al-Attas, Kuala Lumpur, International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization, 1997, pp. 391–428.
• 1998 "Geschichte, Kultur und die Suche nach dem Organischen", Die Vielfalt der Kulturen: Erinnerung, Geschichte, Identität 4, eds. J. Rüsen, M. Gottlob and M. Mittag (Frankurt/M., Suhrkamp), pp. 74–114. English version as “History, Culture and the Quest for Organism”, in Time and History. The Variety of Cultures, ed. J. Rüsen, New York and Oxford, Berghahn Books, 2007, pp. 109–134. Revised version printed in The Times of History.
• 1998 "Muslim History, Reflections on Periodisation and Categorisation", The Medieval History Journal 1/2, pp. 195–231.
• 1998 "Afterword" to Mushirul Hasan (ed.), Islam, Communities, and the Nation. Muslims in South Asia and Beyond, New Delhi, Menohar Publishers, pp. 491–506.
• 1998 "The Muslim Canon from Late Antiquity to the Age of Modernism: Typology, Utility, and History", in Canonization and Decanonization, ed. A. van der Kooij and K. van den Toorn, Leiden, Brill (Studies in the History of Religions—Numen Book Series, vol. LXXXII), pp. 191–228. Reprinted in The Times of History.
• 1998 "Ibn Khaldun", "al-Mas‘udi", and "Muqaddima", in Encyclopedia of Arabic Literature, eds. Julie Scott Meisami and Paul Starkey, London, Routledge.
• 1999 "Die Kohärenz des Westens: Eine nüchterne Romanze", in Westliches Geschichtsdenken , ed. J. Rüsen, Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1999, pp. 106–116; English version in J. Rüsen (ed.), Western Historical Thinking: An Intercultural Debate, New York and Oxford, Berghahn Books, 2002, pp. 58–64.
• 1999 "Genealogie, Typologie, und Organismus: Islamische und andere. Geschichtsverläfe", in Kontinuität und Wandel: Geschichtsbildern in verschiedenen Fächern und Kulturen , eds. E. Schulz and W. Sonne, Zürich, Hochschul Verlag an der ETH Zürich , pp. 453–478.
• 2001 “Civilisation, Culture, and the New Barbarians”, in International Sociology, 16/1, pp. 75–93; Arabic translation as "Al-Hadara wa'th-Thaqafa wa'l-Barbariyya al-jadida", in Al-Thaqafa al-`Alamiyya, 113(2002), pp. 6-27.
• 2001 "Civilization, Concept and History of", in International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, Oxford, Pergamon Press, pp. 1903–1909.
• 2001 "Islamic Fundamentalism", in International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, Oxford, Pergamon Press, pp. 7931–34.
• 2003 "Postmodern Obscurantism and 'The Muslim Question'", in Leo Panitch and Colin Leys (eds.), Fighting Identities: Race, Religion and Ethno-Nationalism (The Socialist Register, 2003), New York and London, Monthly Review Press and the Merlin Press, pp. 28–50. Republished online in Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies, 5(2003), pp. 21–47.
• 2004 "Une question postmoderne ?", in Nadia Tazi (ed.), Les mots du monde: l'identité, Paris, La Découverte, pp. 11–24; English. version as "Identity in the Arab World", in Keywords: Identity, New York, The Other Press, pp. 47–64; Arabic translation in Mafahim `Alamiyya: Al-Huwiyya, tr. `A. Qinnini, Casablanca and Beirut, Arab Cultural Centre, pp. 13-30.
• 2004 "Islam and the History of Civilisations", in Tidskrift för Mellanöststudier, no. 2, pp. 61–87. Reprinted in The Times of History.
• 2004 “Monotheistic Kingship”, in Monotheistic Kingship, ed. J. Bak and A. Al-Azmeh, pp. 9–29. Reprinted in The Times of History as “Monotheistic Monarchy; French translation as “Monarchie monothéiste”, Penser/Rêver, 15: Toute-Puissance, Paris, Éditions de l’Olivier, spring 2009, pp. 175–202.
• 2004 “God’s Chronography and Dissipative Time: Vaticinium ex eventu in Classical and Medieval Muslim Apocalyptic Traditions”, in Medieval History Journal, 7/2, pp. 199–225. Reprinted in The Times of History.
• 2006 "Preamble", Mapping the Gaze: Vision and Visuality in Classical Arabic Culture, ed. Nadia al-Bagdadi—special issue of the Medieval History Journal, 9/1, pp. 17–36.
• 2007 "Epilogue: Romancing the Prose of the World", Reflections on Europe. Defining a Political Order in Time and Space, ed. H.-A. Persson and B. Stråth, Bruxelles, Peter Lang, pp. 249–276.
• 2007 “Human Rights and Contemporary Islam: A Matter of Dialogue?”, in The Universal of Human Rights: Precondition for a Dialogue of Cultures, ed. Hamilton Magalhães Neto, Rio de Janeiro, Educam, pp. 65–81.
• 2007 “Islamic Political Thought: Current Historiography and the Frame of History”, in Al-Azmeh, The Times of History, pp. 185–266.
• 2007 "Afterword", Islam in Europe: Diversity, Identity, Influence, ed. A. Al-Azmeh and E. Fokas, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, pp. 208–215.
• 2009 “Pluralism in Muslim Societies”, in Third Frame: Literature, Culture and Society, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 1–13.
• 2009 “The Genesis of Islam in the Light of History” Medieval History Journal, 12.1, pp. 1–12.
• 2009 “History, Arab Nationalism and Secularism: Constantine Zurayk in Counterpoint”, Configuring Identity in the Modern Arab East, ed. Samir Seikaly, Beirut, American University of Beirut Press, pp. 121–137.

Dissemination of Research

Delivered the following named lectures:

• The First Annual Lecture of the Medieval History Society, supported by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations
  Indian Council for Cultural Relations
  The Indian Council for Cultural Relations , is an autonomous organisation of the Government of India, involved in India’s external cultural relations, through cultural exchange with other countries and their peoples...
  
  , New Delhi
  New Delhi
  New Delhi is the capital city of India. It serves as the centre of the Government of India and the Government of the National Capital Territory of Delhi. New Delhi is situated within the metropolis of Delhi. It is one of the nine districts of Delhi Union Territory. The total area of the city is...
  
  , 2008.
• Annual lecture (in the series “Keywords”) at the Orient-Institut der Deutschen Morgenländichen Gesellschaft, Beirut
  Beirut
  Beirut is the capital and largest city of Lebanon, with a population ranging from 1 million to more than 2 million . Located on a peninsula at the midpoint of Lebanon's Mediterranean coastline, it serves as the country's largest and main seaport, and also forms the Beirut Metropolitan...
  
  .
• The Second Carl Heinrich Becker Lecture at the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (together with the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung and the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin), 2008.
• The Regents' Lectures at the University of California, Berkeley
  University of California, Berkeley
  The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...
  
   (2001).
• The Cleveland Dodge Distinguished Visiting Professor lecture at the American University of Cairo (2002).
• The 19th George Antonius Lecture at St. Antony's College, Oxford (1994).
• The Distinguished Arabist Lecture at New England College
  New England College
  New England College is a private four-year college in Henniker, New Hampshire, enrolling a total of approximately 1800 undergraduate and graduate students.-History:The school was created in 1946 for students attending college on the G.I...
  
   (1991).
• Ringvorlesungen: in the series Kontinuität und Wandel: Geschichtsbilder in verschiedenen Fächern und Kulturen (Zürich: University of Zürich and Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule – 1998).
• The Berliner Festspiele and the Einstein Forum lecture in the series ‘Erbschaft Unserer Zeit’ at the Staatsbibliothek Berlin (1996).
• The Free University, Berlin (1996) and at the University of Freiburg
  University of Freiburg
  The University of Freiburg , sometimes referred to in English as the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, is a public research university located in Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.The university was founded in 1457 by the Habsburg dynasty as the...
  
   im Breisgau (2007).
• Plenary speaker at Fourth Global Forum, Marrakesh (The United Nations
  United Nations
  The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace...
  
   and the Government of Morocco).

Delivered lectures, addresses or seminar papers at:

University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...

 (School of Divinity; Centre for Middle Eastern Studies), University of London

University of London

-20th century:Shortly after 6 Burlington Gardens was vacated, the University went through a period of rapid expansion. Bedford College, Royal Holloway and the London School of Economics all joined in 1900, Regent's Park College, which had affiliated in 1841 became an official divinity school of the...

 (Birkbeck College, Department of Politics and Sociology), University of Oxford

University of Oxford

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 (The Oriental Institute, the Race Relations Seminar, The Near East History Group), University of Essex

University of Essex

The University of Essex is a British campus university whose original and largest campus is near the town of Colchester, England. Established in 1963 and receiving its Royal Charter in 1965...

 (Centre for Theoretical Studies in the Social Sciences and Humanities), University of Exeter

University of Exeter

The University of Exeter is a public university in South West England. It belongs to the 1994 Group, an association of 19 of the United Kingdom's smaller research-intensive universities....

 (Institute of Arab and Middle East Studies; Centre for Medieterranean Studies), University of Hull

University of Hull

The University of Hull, known informally as Hull University, is an English university, founded in 1927, located in Hull, a city in the East Riding of Yorkshire...

 (Department of Sociology), University of St Andrews

University of St Andrews

The University of St Andrews, informally referred to as "St Andrews", is the oldest university in Scotland and the third oldest in the English-speaking world after Oxford and Cambridge. The university is situated in the town of St Andrews, Fife, on the east coast of Scotland. It was founded between...

 (Department of Arabic), University of Marrakech (Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Science), University of Damascus

University of Damascus

The University of Damascus is the largest and oldest university in Syria, located in the capital Damascus and has campuses in other Syrian cities. It was founded in 1923 through the merger of the School of Medicine and the Institute of Law , also making it the oldest university in modern-day Syria...

 (Faculty of Letters), University of Lund (Faculty of Theology), University of Toronto

University of Toronto

The University of Toronto is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, situated on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution of higher learning in Upper Canada...

 (Religious Studies and Middle East Studies); University of Uppsala (Faculty of Theology); University of Balamand

University of Balamand

The University of Balamand is a private, secular university located at El-Koura, Lebanon. It was founded by the Orthodox Patriarch Ignatius IV of Antioch in 1988...

, Lebanon (Faculty of Letters); The International University of Japan

International University of Japan

The is a private university located in Minami-Uonuma city in Niigata Prefecture, Japan.IUJ is the first, and one of the few Japanese universities which run their courses entirely in English. It was founded in 1982, primarily with the aim of providing a platform for delegates from all over the...

; The Aga Khan University

Aga Khan University

The Aga Khan University is a coeducational research university spread over three continents. It was granted its charter in 1983 as Pakistan's first private, autonomous university. AKU was founded by His Highness the Aga Khan, and is part of the Aga Khan Development Network...

 (Karachi); The American University of Sharjah

American University of Sharjah

American University of Sharjah is an independent, not-for-profit coeducational higher educational institution in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, founded in 1997 by Dr. Sultan bin Mohamed Al-Qasimi, Member of the UAE Supreme Council and Ruler of Sharjah...

; Jawaharlal Nehru University

Jawaharlal Nehru University

Jawaharlal Nehru University, also known as JNU, is located in New Delhi, the capital of India. It is mainly a research oriented postgraduate University with approximately 5,500 students and a faculty strength of around 550.-History:...

 (New Delhi), Jamia Millia Islamiya (New Delhi); India International Centre

India International Centre

The India International Centre is a well known non-official organization situated in New Delhi, India. It was founded in 1958, and inaugurated in 1968...

 (New Delhi); Central European University

Central European University

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, Budapest (the Rectorate); Markaz Dirasat al-Wahda al-`Arabiyya (Beirut), Markaz Dirasat al-Wahda al-`Arabiyya and The Cultural League (Tripoli, Lebanon), Centre for Women's Research (Amman); American University of Beirut

American University of Beirut

The American University of Beirut is a private, independent university in Beirut, Lebanon. It was founded as the Syrian Protestant College by American missionaries in 1866...

 (Center for Behavioral Research); Lebanese American University

Lebanese American University

The Lebanese American University is a secular, private and independent American university located in Lebanon...

 (Beirut); Free University, Berlin (Institute of Politics, Institute of Islamic Studies, Institute of Ethnology), Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest), University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...

 (Mellon Foundation Symposium), University of Virginia

University of Virginia

The University of Virginia is a public research university located in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, founded by Thomas Jefferson...

, Charlottesville (joint invitation from the departments of Government, Philosophy, and History), University of Chicago

University of Chicago

The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...

 (Divinity School), Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in...

 (The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture), Harvard University

Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

 (Centre of Middle East Studies), Princeton University

Princeton University

Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....

 (Department of Near Eastern Studies), Yale University

Yale University

Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...

 (The Witney Humanities Centre), Tunisian University (Faculty of Letters and Social Studies), Zeitouna University (Tunis), Faculty of Letters of the University of Sousse

University of Sousse

- History :The University of Sousse was created in 2004 from a division of the University of the Center, which had been created in 1991 from the University of Monastir. The University of the Center had grown rapidly from 45,000 students in 2001-2002 to nearly 60,000 in 2003-2004 in 30 institutions...

, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales

École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales

The École des hautes études en sciences sociales is a leading French institution for research and higher education, a Grand Établissement. Its mission is research and research training in the social sciences, including the relationship these latter maintain with the natural and life sciences...

 (Paris), the Collège International de Philosophie

Collège international de philosophie

The Collège international de philosophie , located in Paris' 5th arrondissement, is a tertiary education institute placed under the trusteeship of the French government department of research and chartered under the French 1901 Law on associations...

 (Paris), Maison des Sciences de l'Homme (Nantes), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (Madrid), The Einstein Forum (Potsdam), Institut du Monde Arabe (Paris), The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (New Delhi), The Centre for the Study of Developing Societies

Centre for the Study of Developing Societies

The Centre for the Study of Developing Societies is an Indian social sciences and humanities research institute. It was founded in 1963 by Rajni Kothari and is largely founded by the Indian Council of Social Science Research...

 (New Delhi), The Arbetermas Bildnings Forbund (Stockholm), Haus der Kulturen der Welt

Haus der Kulturen der Welt

The Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin is Germany's national centre for contemporary non-European art. It presents art exhibitions, theater and dance performances, concerts, author readings, films and academic conferences on non-European Visual Art and culture...

 (Berlin), The International Institute for Islamic Thought and Civilization (Kuala Lumpur), Singapore Management University

Singapore Management University

The Singapore Management University was officially incorporated on January 12, 2000, and was Singapore's first private university funded by the government...

 (Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences), The Royal Institute of International Affairs (London), Centre d'Etudes et de Documentation Economique, Juridique et Sociale (Cairo), Arab Lawyers' Union (Cairo), The Shoman Foundation (Amman), The Royal Cultural Centre (Amman), Institut de Recherche sur le Maghreb Contemporain (Rabat), the Goethe Forum (Munich); Transfuse Association/Bosch Stiftung (Sarajevo), The Cultural and Scientific Association (Dubai), the Zayed Centre for Heritage and History  (al-`Ayn).

Honours and Distinctions

1993 The Republican Order of Merit, for services to Arab culture, was conferred by the President of Tunisia

President of Tunisia

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 in May.

2005 An international conference was held at the Central European University

Central European University

For other uses, see European University Central European University is a graduate-level, English-language university offering degrees in the social sciences, humanities, law, public policy, business management, environmental science, and mathematics...

, Budapest

Budapest

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, to mark the tenth anniversary of the publication of book Islams and Modernities. The proceedings, papers delivered and transcript of discussions, are in preparation for publication.

Sources

• http://www.colbud.hu/mult_ant/Thyssen-Participants/AzizAl-Azmeh.htm
• http://www.aku.edu/ismc