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NAME:� Peter Gran

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EDUCATION, UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE:�

�University of Chicago (Chicago)� 1974� Ph.D.

�University of Chicago (Chicago)� 1965� M.A.

�Yale University (New Haven)����� 1964� B.A.

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DOCTORAL DISSERTATION:

�"Indigenous Roots of Modern Egyptian Culture" (Univ. of Chicago, l974).

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POSITIONS HELD:

Prior to� Appointment at Temple University

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����������� �1977-1979-University of Texas at Austin- Visiting Assistant Professor

������������ 1975-1977-UCLA-Visiting Assistant Professor

������������ 1974-5-Core Faculty, Friends World College

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� Year Appointed at Temple and Rank at Appointment:

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������� 1979�� Associate Professor

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����������� YEAR TENURED IF APPOINTED UNTENURED:� 1981

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PUBLICATIONS:

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����������� BOOKS PUBLISHED OR IN PRESS:

��"The Large Landowning Class and the Peasantry in Egypt, 1837-1958"

By Raouf Abbas� and� Dr. Assem El-Dessouky, translated by Amer Mohsen� with Dr.Mona Zikri, edited by Peter Gran. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, fall 2011 forthcoming)

�Rise of the Rich: A New View of Modern World History� (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press,� 2009); (Cairo: Majlis Al-A`la, 2010) the Arabic edition, forthcoming .

�Islamic Roots of Capitalism, Egypt 1760-1840 (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1979).(Syracuse U. Press, 1998) re-edition updated with a new chapter.(Cairo: American University in Cairo Press,� 1999),a further re-edition of the 1998 version.

�Al-Judhur al-islamiyah li-l-ra'smaliya: Misr 1760-1840 (Cairo, 1992). (a translation of my first book with an introduction� for the Arabic reader).

�Beyond Eurocentrism: A New View of Modern World History(Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1996).(Arabic Translation of Beyond Eurocentrism)(Cairo: Al-Majlis al-A'la li-l-Thaqafah, 1998).����

�History After the Three Worlds: Recent Issues in Historiography (Co-edited� With Vinay Bahl and Arif Dirlik)(Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield,� 2000).����������

�Al-Ta’rikh wa-l-muqarin li-l-sharq al-awsat (Cairo: Al-Majlis al-A`la li-l-Thaqafah, 2005)(eds. Peter Gran and Ra’uf `Abbas).���������

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OTHER WORKS PUBLISHED OR IN PRESS:

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"Why Study Ottoman Egypt," Newsletter of the American Research Center for Egypt, #80(1972)pp. 19-22.

�"The Origins of Liberalism in Egypt:� A Note on Some Misunderstandings," Al-Tali'ah v.8(1972) (in Arabic)pp. 21-4.

�"The Middle East in the Historiography of Advanced Capitalism," Review of Middle East Studies V. 1 (1975)pp. 135-44.

�"The Study of Medieval Islamic History 1930s-1950s in Three Well-known Texts," Review of Middle East Studies V. 2 (1976)pp. 47-56.

�"The Mediterranean as a Framework for Conceptualizing Modern Arabic History," New Directions in Middle East Studies Newsletter V. 1, No. 1 1978, pp. 4-5.

�"Modern Trends in Egyptian Historiography," International Journal of Middle East Studies, V. 9 (1978)pp. 367-71.

�"New Horizons for the Study of Libyan History," Journal of Historical Studies V. 1, No. 2 (1979)pp. 95-104.

�"On Modern Maghribi History," Revue D'Histoire Maghrebine, No. 13, January 1979pp. 57-60.

�"Medical Pluralism in Arab and Egyptian History:� An Overview of Class Structures and Philosophies of the Main Phases," Social Science and Medicine, V. 13B (1979)pp. 339-48.

�"Political Economy as a Paradigm for the Study of Islamic History," International Journal of Middle East Studies, V. 11 (1980)pp. 511-526; reprinted in Islam and Sociological Perspectives edited by Abubaker A. Bagader(Kuala Lumpur: Muslim Youth Movement of Malaysia, 1983)83-105.

�"Social Bases of Syrian Culture, 1770-1850," in Ahmad Tarabayn and others (eds.) Proceedings, 2nd International Bilad al-Sham Conference (Damascus, 1981)pp. 267-282.

�"Structural Logic in Authoritarian Patterns in the Third World:� The Case of Nasir, Qadhdhafi, and Qasim," Joseph Held (ed.) The Deification of the Dictator in the 20th Century (New York:� NYU Press, 1982)pp. 107-128.

�"Late 18th Century Egypt:� Merchant Capital or Modern Capitalism?," in GREPO (ed.) l'Egypte au XIXe Siecle (Paris:� CNRS, 1982)pp. 267-82.

�"Reflections on Contemporary Arab Society: the Political Economy School of the 1970's," Arab Studies Quarterly v. 9 (l987)pp. 76-97. Revised and reprinted as���������������������������������������������������� ������������������������������������������������������������������������������"Late Eighteenth-Early Nineteenth Century Egypt:� Merchant Capitalism or Modern Capitalism," in Huri Islamoglu-Inan The Ottoman Empire and the World Economy (Cambridge:� CUP, l987)pp. 27-4l .

�"Islamic Marxism in Comparative History:� The Case of Lebanon Reflections on the Recent Book of Husayn Muruwah," in The Islamic Impulse� edited by Barbara Stowasser (London:� CCAS, Georgetown, 1987)pp. l06-l20.

�"The State and the Intellectuals in Modern Syria: The Case of Tib Tizini" in �Politics and the Economy in Syria edited by J.A. Allan (London: Centre of Near and Middle Eastern Studies, 1987)pp. 107-125.

�"Nahwa minhaj ta'rikhi muqaran li-dirasah ta'rikh Misr al-hadith," in Ahmad 'Abd Allah (ed.) Ta'rikh Misr bayna al-minhaj al-'ilmi wa al-sira' al-hizbi (Cairo, l987)pp. 87-93.(Toward a Comparative Historical Framework for Egypt).

�"Studies of Anglo-American Political Economy: Democracy, Orientalism and the Left" in Hisham Sharabi (ed.) Theory, Politics and the Arab World.(New York: Routledge, 1990)pp. 228-254.����������

"Mafhum Gharamshi 'an al-muthaqqaf al-taqlidi salihiyatiha li-dirasah Misr al-hadith," in Hilmi Sha'rawi et al. (eds.)Gharamshi (Damascus, 1991)pp. 353-367. (Gramsci's Concept of the traditional intellectual-its utility for the study of modern Egypt).

�"An Approach to Critical Thinking: The Gulf War in Context," Inquiry: Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines 7/2(March 1991)pp. 21-23.

�"Contemporary Orientalism in the USA" Orientalism v.5(Summer 1991)pp. 4-16.

�"The Writing of Egyptian History: A Contribution� to Today's Problems?"Ahram Weekly English Language Edition, 7/30/92, p.8.

�"Bringing the Argument Up To Date," ibid., 8/6/92, p.8.

�"The Political Economy of Aesthetics: Modes of Domination in Modern Nation States Seen Through Shakespeare Reception," Dialectical Anthropology v. 17(1992)pp. 271-288.

�"The Writing of Egyptian History" Newsletter of the American Research Center in Egypt #160 (Winter 1993)pp. 1-6. (revised version of Ahram articles).

�"Looking for the Real Tahtawi" Al-Ahram Weekly(Oct. 27-Nov. 2(1994)p. 5.

�"Race and Racism in the Modern World: How it Works in Different Hegemonies," Transforming Anthropology v.5/1-2(1994)pp. 8-14.

�"Organization of Culture and Construction of the Family in the Modern Middle East," in Amira Sonbol(ed.)Women, the Family and Divorce Laws in Islamic History(Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1996) ch. 4. (Arabic Version, Cairo, 1999).

�Egypt 1760-1815, A Period of Enlightenment?" in H. Sakkut, B. O'Kane, T. Abdullah and M. Serag (eds.)Studies in Honor of Marsden Jones(Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 1997) 73-94.

�Beyond Eurocentrism and its Application to Mediterranean Studies,"in International Relations: Rethinking the Gulf War-Saving Peoples' Lives," in Kirsi Virtanen(ed.)Individual, Ideologies and Society (Tampere: TAPRI� Research Reports #89, 2000)59-70

�"Contending with Middle East Exceptionalism," Arab Studies Quarterly v.6/1(Spr. 1998)6-9.

�"Subaltern Studies, Racism, and Class Struggle; Examples from India and the United States,"(Pullman, Washington: Working Paper Series, Dept. Of Comparative American Cultures, #4 1999)

�"Mulahazat hawla al-hadathah fi al-`alam al-`arabi (Misr namuzijan)"(Observations on Modernism in the Arab World, Egypt as an Example)Qadhaya’ fikriyah #29(October 1999)69-74; English version,

�"Notes on Modernism in the Arab World: With Reference to the Role Historians Play in Egypt," Studies in History and Arab Culture� edited by Obayda Kohela(Cairo: Dar al-Misriya al-Lubnaniyah, 2001)5-12;

�"Quest for a Historical Interpretation of the Life of Shaykh al-Azhar Ibrahim al-Bajuri(1784-1860)-an Agenda Article," Islah� am tahdith-Misr fi `asr Muhammad `Ali�� (Cairo: Al-Majlis Al-A`la, 1999)59-93.

�"Fellachen" Historisch-Kritisches worterbuch des marxismus �(Berlin: Inkrit/Argument, 1999) v. 4, 262-270.

�. "Modern Middle Eastern History Beyond� Oriental Despotism, World History Beyond Hegel: An Agenda Article," Cairo Papers in� Social Science� v. 23/2(2001)162-199.

�"Tahtawi in Paris" Ahram Weekly #568(Jan. 10, 2002)p. 14.

�"`Passive Revolution’ as a Possible Model for Nineteenth Century Egyptian History," Money, Land and Trade-an Economic History of the Muslim Mediterranean (ed.)Nelly Hanna (London: I.B. Tauris, 2002)84-100.

�"Upper Egypt in Modern History: a `Southern Question’," Identity and Change in Upper Egypt� (eds.)Nicholas Hopkins and Reem Saad(Cairo: AUC Press, 2004) ch. 4.

�"Gramsci el Principal teorica de la transformacion socialista temprana," Poder y Hegemonia: Gramsci en la era global (ed.)Dora Kanoussi(Mexico City: BUAP-Instituto Gramsci-IGS, Plaza y Valdes, 2004) ch. 4.

�"�Fanon today" in Visions of the Wretched: Homage to Frantz Fanon (ed.) Nabil Cherni (Manouba/Tunis: Manouba Faculty of Letters, 2004)

�"Egyptian History" World and Its Peoples (New York: Marshall Cavendish, 2006)v. 8 (Egypt)1060-1065. forthcoming.

�"Cairo Notes" Bulletin (MESA) v. 39/1 June 2005, pp. 46-48.

�"Egypt and Italy, 1760-1850: Toward a Comparative History," in Society and Economy in Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean, 1600-1900� edited by Nelly Hanna and Raouf Abbas (Cairo: AUC Press, 2005) 11-40.

�"The Popular Uses of Muhammad `Ali," Ahram Weekly �Nov. 10,2005 , p. 21 (special section).

�"Rediscovering Al-`Attar," Ahram Weekly� #770, Nov. 24, 2005, Culture Section.

"Modern World History as the Rise of the Rich: A New Paradigm" History Compass

�v. 5/3 (2007)1026-1049.

�"An Attempt to get Beyond Polarity of Thought� in the Case of Democracy and� Political Islam" �Oriente Moderno ��v. 87/2(2007)407-430. (appeared in 2008)

�"Historians of the 1960’s-With Reference to the Early Work of Ra’uf `Abbas"(Dunya’ al-mu’arrikhin fi al-sittiniyat-isharah ila-l-dirasat al-mubakkir li-Ra’uf `Abbas) Memorial Conference in Honor of the late Prof. Ra’uf `Abbas, Society of Egyptian Historical Studies, Cairo, Oct. 18 "Fi ta’bin� Ra’uf `Abbas" Al-Badil (Egyptian newspaper) October 28, 2008, p. 12.

(https://www.elbadeel.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=35089&Itemid=39).

�"The Implications of Arab Islamic Influence on the Italian Renaissance for the Europeanization of Europe’s Muslims Today," Building Peace by Intercultural Dialogue

(eds.)Kirsi Henriksson and Anita Kynsilehto (Tampere: Tampere Peace Research Institute, 2008)303-318.

�x"Hasan al-`Attar"� in Essays in Arabic Literary �

Biography 11: 1350-1800, edited by� Devin Stewart and� Joseph Lowry(Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, Dec. 2009) pp. 56-68.

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