Samer Traboulsi, Ph.D.

Education

Ph.D., Princeton University, 2005

Teaching and Research Interests

History of the pre-modern Middle East, Arabia, and Ismailism

Publications

• Burhānpūrī, Qutb al-Dīn (d. 1241/1826). Muntaza‘ al-akhbār fī akhbār al-du‘āt al-akhyār (The History of the Ismaili Tayyibi Da‘wa up to the Da’udi-Sulaymani Schism), ed. S. Traboulsi. Beirut: Dār al-Gharb al-Islāmī, 1999.

Articles

• “Lamak ibn Mālik al-Hammādī and Sulayhid-Fatimid Relations,” in Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies 30(2000), 221-227.
• “An Early Refutation of Muhammad b. ‘Abd al-Wahhāb’s Reformist Views,” in Die Welt des Islams 42(2002), 373-415.
• “The Queen was Actually a Man: Arwa> bint Ah}mad and the Politics of Religion,” in Arabica L(2003), 96-108.
• “The Ottoman Conquest of Yemen: The Isma’ili Perspective” in The Arab Lands in the Ottoman Era, ed. J. Hathaway (Minnesota, 2009), 41-60.
• ” ‘I Entered Mecca… and Destroyed all the Tombs’: Some Remarks on Saudi-Ottoman Correspondence”, in The Islamic Scholarly Tradition, ed. Asad Ahmed et. al. (Brill, 2011), 197-217.

Favorite History-related Links

• Alkhazina
• Princeton Digital Library of Islamic Manuscripts
• The Creswell Photographic Archive 
• Index of Early Medieval Maps
• Medieval Sourcebook
• The Oxford Cantigas de Santa Maria Project

Courses Regularly Taught

• Hist 388: Introduction to Islam
• Hist373: The Medieval Middle East
• Hist389: The Modern Middle East
• Hist373: Food in the Muslim World
• Hist373: The Crusades
• Hist373: The Byzantine Empire
• Hist151: World Civilizations to 1500