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American historian (born 1949)
Khalid Yahya Blankinship (born 1949 in
Seattle,
Washington) is an American
historian who specialises in
Islamic and
Middle Eastern studies.
Biography
He graduated (
BA) in History from the
University of Washington in 1973
[1] and in the same year, while still in Seattle, converted to
Islam.
[2]
In 1975 Blankinship received an
MA in teaching
English as a foreign language from the
American University in Cairo, in 1983 a second MA in Islamic History from
Cairo University and in 1988 a
Ph.D. in History from the
University of Washington.
[1] He was an advisor for the PBS-broadcast documentary
Muhammad: Legacy of a Prophet (2002), produced by Unity Productions Foundation.
[3]
He has lived and traveled widely in the Middle East, including time in
Egypt and
Mecca,
Saudi Arabia. He is currently a
tenured professor of religion at
Temple University.
[1]
Bibliography
-
Blankinship, Khalid Yahya, ed. (1989).
The History of al-Ṭabarī, Volume XXV: The End of Expansion: The Caliphate of Hishām, A.D. 724–738/A.H. 105–120. SUNY Series in Near Eastern Studies. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press.
ISBN
978-0-88706-569-9.
-
Blankinship, Khalid Yahya, ed. (1993).
The History of al-Ṭabarī, Volume XI: The Challenge to the Empires. SUNY Series in Near Eastern Studies. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press.
ISBN
978-0-7914-0851-3.
-
Blankinship, Khalid Yahya (1994).
The End of the Jihâd State: The Reign of Hishām ibn ʻAbd al-Malik and the Collapse of the Umayyads. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press.
ISBN
978-0-7914-1827-7.
- The Inimitable Qurʾān: Some Problems in English Translations of the Qurʾān with Reference to Rhetorical Features.
Brill, 2019.
ISBN
9004412522
- Murshid al-Qârî': A Reader’s Guide To Classical Muslim Religious Literature In English. Berkeley, CA: Lamppost Educational Initiative, 2021.
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