{{Short description|Professor of Islamic studies}} {{Infobox person | name = Adam Sabra | image = <!-- filename only, no "File:" or "Image:" prefix, and no enclosing brackets --> | alt = <!-- descriptive text for use by speech synthesis (text-to-speech) software --> | caption = | birth_name = <!-- only use if different from name --> | birth_date = c.{{Birth year and age|1968}} | birth_place = | death_date = <!-- {{Death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} (DEATH date then BIRTH date) --> | death_place = | other_names = | education = Harvard University,<br/>Princeton University | occupation = professor of Islamic Studies | employer = University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) | years_active = | known_for = King Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud Chair in Islamic Studies at UCSB | notable_works = see Selected publications }} '''Adam Sabra''' (born c.1968) is a historian of the Middle East at the University of California, Santa Barbara.<ref name=profile>[http://www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/adam-sabra Adam Sabra.] Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara. Retrieved 13 February 2025.</ref>
==Education and career== Sabra was an undergraduate at Harvard University, where he majored in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and specialized in Islamic Studies. He graduated in 1990, and continued at Princeton University, receiving a master's degree in 1994 and completing his Ph.D. in 1998.<ref name=cv/>
After short-term positions at Drew University, Sarah Lawrence College, and the University of Michigan, he became an assistant professor at Western Michigan University in 2002. He moved to the University of Georgia in 2006 and was tenured there in 2008. Since 2012 he has been professor and King Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud Chair in Islamic Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.<ref name=cv>{{citation|url=https://www.history.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/Adam-Sabra-CV-2024.docx|title=Curriculum vitae|year=2024|publisher=University of California, Santa Barbara|access-date=2024-02-14}}</ref>
==Selected publications== *''Poverty and Charity in Medieval Islam: Mamluk Egypt, 1250-1517''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000 (paperback edition)<ref>Reviews of ''Poverty and Charity in Medieval Islam'': *Elton L. Daniel (2001), ''Journal of Islamic Studies'', {{doi|10.1093/jis/12.3.333}}, {{jstor|26198285}} *Amy Singer (2002), ''Islamic Law and Society'', {{jstor|3399465}} *Youssef M. Choueiri (2003), ''History'', {{jstor|24426776}} *Sophie Denoix (2004), ''Annales'', {{doi|10.1017/S0395264900023040}}, {{jstor|27587583}} *Anita Mir (2006), ''British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies'', {{jstor|20455430}} </ref> *With Roxani Eleni Margariti and Petra M. Sijpesteijn (eds.), ''Histories of the Middle East: Studies in Middle Eastern Society, Economy and Law in Honor of A. L. Udovitch''. Leiden: Brill, 2010.<ref>Reviews of ''Histories of the Middle East'': *Yasmin Amin (2012), ''American Journal of Islam and Society'', {{doi|10.35632/ajis.v29i4.1187}} *C. Edmund Bosworth (2013), ''Journal of Islamic Studies'', {{doi|10.1093/jis/ett006}} {{jstor|26201133}} </ref> *With Richard J. McGregor (eds.), ''Le développement du soufisme en Égypte à l’époque mamlouke''. Cairo: Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, 2006.<ref>Reviews of ''Le développement du soufisme en Égypte à l’époque mamlouke'': *Youhanna Nessim Youssef (2007), ''Archives de sciences sociales des religions'', {{jstor|30119374}} *Ismaïl Warscheid (2008), ''Bulletin critique des Annales islamologiques'', [https://www.persee.fr/doc/bcai_0259-7373_2008_num_24_1_1040_t2_0066_0000_1] *Rachida Chih (2009), ''Remmm'', {{doi|10.4000/remmm.6311}} </ref> *“Ibn Hazm’s Literalism: A Critique of Islamic Legal Theory,” in ''al-Qantara'', XXVIII/1 (enero-junio 2007), pp. 7–40, XXVIII/2 (julio-diciembre 2007), pp. 307–348. *''The Guidebook for Gullible Jurists and Mendicants to the Conditions for Befriending Emirs and, The Abbreviated Guidebook for Gullible Jurists and Mendicants to the Conditions for Befriending Emirs'' by ‘Abd al-Wahhāb ibn Aḥmad ‘Alī al-Sha‘rānī *With Mustafa y Sabra Mughazy (eds.), ''Kitāb Dustūr al-gharāʾib wa-maʿdan al-raghāʾib and Related Texts. The Correspondence (Inshāʾ) of Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Ḥasan al-Bakrī al-Ṣiddīqī (930-994/1524-1586)'', Bonn University Press, 2020<ref>Review of ''Kitāb Dustūr al-gharāʾib wa-maʿdan al-raghāʾib and Related Texts'': Mohamed Meouak (2022), ''Al-Qanṭara'', {{doi|10.3989/alqantara.2022.006}} </ref>
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==External links== *[https://ucsb.academia.edu/AdamSabra Home page]
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