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Adam Mestyan

Associate Professor

Duke University

Affiliations

Trinity College of Arts & Sciences

History

Adam Mestyan is currently serving as a History Associate Professor at Duke University.

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Adam Mestyan

Duke University

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history middle eastern studies social history east asian studies political science intellectual history political history global history international history agricultural history arab patriotism late ottoman egypt modern egypt islamic law culture ideology nationalism international relations colonialism islamic thought democracy agrarian change urban history nuclear science indigenous peoples settler colonialism historical analysis land management transnational history industrialisation muslim dualism ottoman thought inter-imperial history domestic sovereignty global microhistory land administration agricultural land political order organic law mandate syria global legal history nineteenth-century egypt eurasian geography islamic economics middle east policy geopolitics orientalism civilizations twentieth century islamic studies empire culture collection

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Acquisition by Use in Islamic Law: Iḥyāʾ Al-MawāT in Three Legal Opinions From Late Ottoman Egypt. The Arabist Budapest Studies in Arabic (2024)

Adam Mestyan

legal opinionslate ottoman egyptlawislamic law

Microhistory as Industrial History: Environment, Sugar Capitalism and Labour in Egypt, 1863–1879. Past & Present (2024)

Adam Mestyan

agricultural historyindustrial historyindustrialisationenvironmental historysugar capitalismenvironmental sciencehistory

The Classical Discovery of Modern (Book) History Rediscovering the Islamic Classics: How Editors and Print Culture Transformed an Intellectual Tradition, by Ahmed El Shamsy, Princeton, Nj, Princeton University Press, 2020, 312 Pp., £40.00 (Hardback), Isbn: 9780691174563. Middle Eastern Literatures (2023)

Adam Mestyan

intellectual historyprint culturehistoryclassicshumanitiesislamic classics

The Probate Regime: Enchanted Bureaucracy, Islamic Law, and the Capital of Orphans in Nineteenth-Century Egypt. Law and History Review (2022)

Adam MestyanRezk Nori

nineteenth-century egyptprobate regimeurban historyjurisprudencelawislamic lawsocial historyinternational historybureaucracypolitical historyhistory

A Muslim Dualism? Inter-Imperial History and Austria-Hungary in Ottoman Thought, 1867–1921. Contemporary European History (2021)

Adam Mestyan

intellectual historyinter-imperial historyottoman thoughtmuslim dualismhistory

From Administrative to Political Order? Global Legal History, the Organic Law, and the Constitution of Mandate Syria, 1925–1930. Journal of Global History (2021)

Adam Mestyan

political scienceorganic lawglobal legal historypolitical ordermandate syriaglobal historymiddle eastern studies

JARĀʾID: A Chronology of Arabic Periodicals (1800-1929). Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) (2020)

Adam MestyanTill Grallert

nuclear sciencearabic periodicalshistory and philosophy of sciencejournalism

Seeing Like a Khedivate: Taxing Endowed Agricultural Land, Proofs of Ownership, and the Land Administration in Egypt, 1869. Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient (2020)

Adam Mestyan

land administrationagricultural economicsagricultural historyagrarian changeeconomicsland managementagricultural landsocial historyeconomic historyhistory

Arab Patriotism: The Ideology and Culture of Power in Late Ottoman Egypt. Bustan The Middle East Book Review (2019)

Side Emre

ideologyeast asian studiesarab patriotismculturelate ottoman egyptmiddle eastern studies

Matthew Ellis, Desert Borderland: The Making of Modern Egypt and Libya (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2018). Pp. 280. $65.00 Cloth. Isbn: 9781503605008. International Journal Middle East Studies (2019)

Adam Mestyan

desert borderlandmiddle eastern studiesmodern egypthistorytransnational history

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Adam Mestyan

Associate Professor

Duke University

Affiliations

Trinity College of Arts & Sciences

History

Adam Mestyan is currently serving as a History Associate Professor at Duke University.

Honors

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Education

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Adam Mestyan

Duke University

Associate Professor

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Notable Scholarly Works

Notable Federal Grants

Collaborators

Acquisition by Use in Islamic Law: Iḥyāʾ Al-MawāT in Three Legal Opinions From Late Ottoman Egypt. The Arabist Budapest Studies in Arabic (2024)

Adam Mestyan

legal opinionslate ottoman egyptlawislamic law

Microhistory as Industrial History: Environment, Sugar Capitalism and Labour in Egypt, 1863–1879. Past & Present (2024)

Adam Mestyan

agricultural historyindustrial historyindustrialisationenvironmental historysugar capitalismenvironmental sciencehistory

Adam Mestyan

intellectual historyprint culturehistoryclassicshumanitiesislamic classics

The Probate Regime: Enchanted Bureaucracy, Islamic Law, and the Capital of Orphans in Nineteenth-Century Egypt. Law and History Review (2022)

Adam MestyanRezk Nori

nineteenth-century egyptprobate regimeurban historyjurisprudencelawislamic lawsocial historyinternational historybureaucracypolitical historyhistory

A Muslim Dualism? Inter-Imperial History and Austria-Hungary in Ottoman Thought, 1867–1921. Contemporary European History (2021)

Adam Mestyan

intellectual historyinter-imperial historyottoman thoughtmuslim dualismhistory

From Administrative to Political Order? Global Legal History, the Organic Law, and the Constitution of Mandate Syria, 1925–1930. Journal of Global History (2021)

Adam Mestyan

political scienceorganic lawglobal legal historypolitical ordermandate syriaglobal historymiddle eastern studies

JARĀʾID: A Chronology of Arabic Periodicals (1800-1929). Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) (2020)

Adam MestyanTill Grallert

nuclear sciencearabic periodicalshistory and philosophy of sciencejournalism

Seeing Like a Khedivate: Taxing Endowed Agricultural Land, Proofs of Ownership, and the Land Administration in Egypt, 1869. Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient (2020)

Adam Mestyan

land administrationagricultural economicsagricultural historyagrarian changeeconomicsland managementagricultural landsocial historyeconomic historyhistory

Arab Patriotism: The Ideology and Culture of Power in Late Ottoman Egypt. Bustan The Middle East Book Review (2019)

Side Emre

ideologyeast asian studiesarab patriotismculturelate ottoman egyptmiddle eastern studies

Adam Mestyan

desert borderlandmiddle eastern studiesmodern egypthistorytransnational history

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