Abdel Razzaq Takriti
Abdel Razzaq Takriti is the Founding Director of the Arab-American Educational Foundation Center for Arab
Studies and Inaugural holder of the Arab-American Educational Foundation Chair in
Modern Arab History. He is currently Associate Professor of History and Arab-American Educational Foundation Chair in Arab
Studies at Rice University.
Website:
Email: atakriti@rice.edu
A scholar of anti-colonialism, revolution, state formation, and intellectual traditions in the Arab world, he is the author of 鈥淢onsoon Revolution: Republicans, Sultans, and Empires in Oman鈥� (Oxford University Press, 2013; paperback edition, 2016). The book was a finalist for the Royal Historical Society鈥檚 Gladstone Prize for best debut book in non-British history, was awarded Honourable Mention from the British-Kuwaiti Friendship Society Book Prize housed at the University of Cambridge, and appeared in a revised Arabic edition under the title 鈥淒hufar: Thawrat al-Riyah al-Mawsimiyya鈥� (Jadawel Books, 2019). Professor Takriti is also co-author (with Professor Karma Nabulsi) of the digital humanities project 鈥溾�� (Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford, 2016), for which they received the prestigious Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA) Undergraduate Education Award in 2019.
He holds a D.Phil. in History from St Antony鈥檚 College, Oxford and was formerly a Junior Research Fellow in Political History at St Edmund Hall, Oxford. His doctoral dissertation was awarded MESA鈥檚 Malcolm Kerr Award for best doctoral dissertation in the humanities and the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) Leigh Douglas Memorial Prize for best doctoral dissertation in the social sciences or the humanities.