Sami Zubaida

Emeritus Professor of Politics and Sociology

e-mail: s.zubaida@bbk.ac.uk

• Professeur Invite, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, Summer 2003
  
• Visting Hauser Global Professor of Law, The Law School, New York University, Spring 2006
  
• Sami Zubaida delivered his inaugural lecture at Birkbeck's Clore Management Centre on 5 May 2004 on Cosmopolitans, Nationalists and Fundamentalists in the Modern Middle East
  
• Prof Zubaida delivered the Kareema Khoury Distinguished Lecture at Georgetown University, Washington DC, on 'The Quest for Authenticity in Middle Eastern Cultures: Religion, Community and Nation' (18 March 2004).
  
• Prof Zubaida's Law and Power in the Islamic World was published by I.B.Tauris (London) in June 2003.
  The book treats the politics of Shari'a and law in Islamic society through an examination of formative episodes of legal texts, institutions and personnel, and the contests and accommodations between scholars as the guardians of the law and political authority.
  It culminates with chapters on the politics and ideology of law in recent times, especially in Egypt and in Iran after the 1979 Revolution.
  For further information visit: www.ibtauris.com

• 'Islam in Europe', in Critical Quarterly 45:1:2, 2003
  
  
• 'A Culinary History of "National" Cuisine: Egypt and the Middle East', Cairo Papers in Social Science 27:1/2, 2006
  
  
• 'The Rise and fall of Civil Society in Iraq', Haldun Galap ed, Citizenship and Ethnic Conflict, London 2006
  
  
• 'The Fragments Imagine the Nation: The Case of Iraq', in International Journal of Middle East Studies 34:2 (2002)
  
  
• 'Islam, Citizenship and Community', in Middle East Report 221, (2001)
  
  
• 'Civil Society, Community and Democracy in the Middle East', in S. Kaviraj and S. Khilnani, eds., Civil Society: History and Prospects (2001)
  
  
• 'A taste of Thyme: Culinary Cultures of the Middle East', 2nd ed London: IB Taurus (2000)
  
  
• 'Islam, the People and the State: Political Ideas and Movements in the Middle East', 2nd ed London: IB Taurus (1993)

• The Politics of Islamic Law
  
  
• The Construction of National and Regional Cuisines in the Middle East
  
  
• Member of the Editorial Board, Economy and Society
  
  
• Consulting Editor, Middle East Report, Washington DC