Abdul Rahim Abu-Husayn

• PhD, American University of Beirut (AUB).
• Professor of History, Department of History and Archaeology, AUB since 2002.
• Member, Board of Directors of the International Committee for pre-Ottoman and Ottoman Studies, 1996-present.

Courses taught at AUB                                   

• Survey of Modern Europe ( HIST101/102)
• Introduction to the Modern History of the Arab East ( HIST 202)
• History of the Arabs, 632 - 750 ( HIST 234)
• Ottoman State and Society, 1300 - 1600 ( HIST 237)
• Ottoman State and Society, 1600 - 1923 ( HIST 238)
• History of Lebanon from 634 to 1920 A.D. ( HIST 245)
• Graduate Seminar in Arab and Near East History ( HIST 303/304)
• The Arab Historians ( HIST 321/322)   
• Tutorial Topics in Modern Middle East History ( HIST 331-334)                            

Recent Publications

• 2009 "Rebellion, Myth making and Nation Building: Lebanon from an Ottoman Mountain Iltizam to a Nation State", in Studia Culturae Islamica ,97, ILCAA, (Tokyo University of foreign Studies).
• 2007 - 2008 co-author with Engin Akarli, “Law and Communal Identity in Late ottoman Lebanon (In   Light of Two  Waqf Disputes in 1893-1912”, in al-Abhath, 55, 113-146.
• 2006 “A Historical potpourri of Ottoman Lebanon under the Mutasarifiyya, Shakir Khuri’s Majma’ al-Masarrat”, in M. Kacar &Z. Durukal (eds.) Studies and Sources on the History of Islamic Civilisation Series; No. 13, Istanbul: IRCICA, 2006, Vol. I, pp. 65-75
• 2005 Lubnan wa al-Imarah al-Durziyya fi al-'Ahd al-'Uthmani, Beirut.
•  2005 co-author with Engin Akarli, “The Subordination of the Hawran Druzes in 1910, the Ottoman perspective”, in Druze Realities and Perceptions (London), pp.115-128.
• 2005 “A Historical potpourri of Ottoman Lebanon under the Mutasarifiyya, Shakir Khuri’s Majma’ al-Masarrat”, in Societies, Cultures and Science in historical perspective: Essays in honour of Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu, (Istanbul: IRCICA), Vol. I, pp. 73-85.
• 2005 Lubnan wa al-Imarah al-Durziyya fi al –‘Ahd al-‘Uthmani (in Arabic),  Beirut, Dar Annahar, 2005.
• 2004 The View from Istanbul: Lebanon and the Druze Emirate in the Ottoman Chancery Documents, 1546-1711. IB Tauris, London and Centre for Lebanese Studies, Oxford.
• 2001 The Long Rebellion, The Druzes and the Ottomans, 1516-1697, (Archivum Ottomanicum, 19), pp. 165-191.
• 1998 co-author with Saleh Sadawi. Al-Kana'is al-'Arabiyya fi al-Sijjil al-Kanasi al-'Uthmani, 1869-1922 (The Arab Churches in The Ottoman Register of Churches 1869-1922), in Arabic. Amman, Jordan: The Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies.