Ehud R. Toledano, Dept. of Middle East and African History


Short Curriculum Vitae (highlights):

BA, Modern Islamic History and Arabic, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1974)

PhD, Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University (1979)

Post-Doctoral Fellow, American Research Center in Egypt, Cairo (1979/80)

Senior Associate Member, St Antony's College, University of Oxford (1986/7)

Visiting Scholar, History Department, University of Pennsylvania, (1993/4)

Member of the Steering Committee, European Science Foundation Program of "Individual and Society in the Mediterranean Muslim World"

Member of the Editorial Panel, Mediterranean Historical Review


Major publications (books and major articles):

Books

The Ottoman Slave Trade and Its Suppression, 1840-1890, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982; translated into Turkish as (capital letters represent special characters in Turkish): OsmanlI kOle ticareti, 1840-1890, Istanbul: Tarih VakfI Yurt YayInlarI, 1994

Introduction to the History of the Ottoman Empire, Tel-Aviv, 1985 (in Hebrew)

State and Society in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Egypt, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990

Egypt on the Threshold of the Modern Era (18th and 19th centuries): A New Interpetation, Tel-Aviv, 1996 (in Hebrew)

Slavery and Abolition in the Ottoman Middle East, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1997 (in press)

with Israel Gershoni (eds), Cultural Processes in Muslim and Arab Societies, Durham: Duke University Press, 1993/4: Vol 1, "Medieval and Early Modern Periods," Poetics Today, 14/2, special issue (Summer 1993); Vol 2, "Modern Period I," Poetics Today, 14/3, special issue (Fall 1993); Vol 3, "Modern Period II," Poetics Today, 15/2, special issue (Summer 1994)

Articles (select listing)

"The Legislative Process in the Ottoman Empire in the Early Tanzimat Period," International Journal of Turkish Studies, 1/2 (1980): 99-108

"Slave Dealers, Women, Pregnancy, and Abortion: the Story of a Circassian Slave-girl in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Cairo," Slavery and Abolition, 2/1 (1981): 53-68

"Law, Practice, and Social Reality: A Theft Case in Cairo, 1854," Asian and African Studies, 17/1-3 (1983): 153-173

"The Sanjak of Jerusalem in the Sixteenth Century: Aspects of Topography and Population," Archivum Ottomanicum, 9 (1984): 279-319

"The Imperial Eunuchs of Istanbul: From Africa to the Heart of Islam," Middle Eastern Studies, 20/3 (1984): 379-390

"Muhammad cAli Basha or Mehemt Ali Pasa?" Middle Eastern Studies, 21/4 (1985): 141-159

"Ottoman Concepts of Slavery in the Period of Reform (1830s-1880s)," in Martin A Klein (ed), Breaking the Chains: Slavery, Bondage and Emancipation in Modern Africa and Asia, Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1993: 37-63

"Shemsigul: A Circassian Slave in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Cairo," in Edmund Burke, III (ed), Struggle and Survival in the Modern Middle East, Berkley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1993: 59-74

"The Emergence of Ottoman-Local Elites in the Middle East and North Africa, 17th-19th Centuries," in I Pappé and M Ma'oz (eds), Essays in Honour of Albert Hourani, Oxford & London: St Antony's College and Tauris Press, 1997 (in press)

"Muhammad cAli Pasha," Encyclopædia of Islam, second edition, Leiden: E J Brill, Vol 7 (1991): 423-431


Teaches in the following subject areas:

Ottoman history
social and cultural history of the Arab Middle East (19th-20th centuries)
Egyptian history (18th-20th centuries)


Teaches the following courses in the current academic year:

Introduction to the History of the Ottoman Empire
Social History of the Arab Middle East
Advanced tutorial for concentrators in modern Middle East History
Albert Hourani's Contribution to the Study of Middle East History


Areas of current research interest:

The formation of Ottoman-local elites in the Middle East and North Africa (17th-19th centuries)
Collective memory in the Ottoman Middle East


Additional points of contact (office/home telephone, fax,etc.):

phone:972-3-6409750 (office)
fax: 972-3-5228621


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