 John Meloy
- Associate Dean, Faculty of Arts and Sciences since October 2010.
- Professor, Department of History and Archaeology, AUB, since 2010.
- Director, Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies (CAMES), AUB, since October 2009.
- Director, Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies, (CAMES) , AUB, between 2004 and 2006.
- Associate Professor, Department of History and Archaeology, AUB, since 2004.
- Ph.D. in History, the University of Chicago, 1998.
Areas of Research
The history of the pre-modern Islamic world and in particular the Middle Periods of Islamic history, ca. 1000 to ca. 1500.
Courses Taught at AUB
- Cultures in Contact: The History of the Crusades ( History 227)
- Islamic History: The Political Order of the Sultanate, 1055-1500 ( History 214)
- Military Society in the Medieval Middle East: The History of the Mamluk Sultanate ( History 217)
- North Africa and Spain in the Middle Ages ( History 251)
- Senior Seminar : Arab & Near East History ( History 292)
Recent Publications
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Imperial Power and Maritime Trade: Mecca and Cairo in the Later Middle Ages. Chicago Studies on the Middle East, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago. Chicago: Middle East Documentation Center, 2010.
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“Money and Sovereignty in Mecca: Issues of the Sharifs in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries.” Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, vol. 53, 2010, pp. 712-38 (in press).
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“Overland trade in the western Islamic world, eleventh through fifteenth centuries.” The New Cambridge History of Islam, vol. 2: The Western Islamic World, Eleventh to Eighteenth Centuries, edited by Maribel Fierro, pp. 648-64. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
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Co-editor with A. Heinemann, T. Khalidi, and M. Kropp. Al-Jahiz: A Muslim Humanist for Our Time. Beiruter Texte und Studien, 119. Beirut and Würzburg: Orient-Institut and Ergon-Verlag in Kommission, 2009.
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