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Marcus, Abraham
Associate Professor
Office: BUR 522
Office Hours: T-TH 10:30- 12:00
Phone: (512) 475-7229
amarcus@uts.cc.utexas.edu
Education: Ph.D., Columbia
Research interests:
Arab and Ottoman history; Islamic history; social history of the Middle East; music cultures of the Middle East
Courses taught:
Arab and Ottoman History, Ethnomusicology
Recent Publications:
--The Middle East on the Eve of Modernity: Aleppo in the Eighteenth Century . New York: Columbia University Press, 1989, 418 pp. Paperback edition, 1992. --Middle East Editor and co-author, The Encyclopedia of World History , 6th rev. ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001. --Consulting Editor, The Encyclopedia of World Music, vol. 6: The Middle East . New York: Routledge, 2002. --"Burial Patterns and Cemeteries in Syria, 1700-1920," in Jean-Louis Bacque- Grammont (ed.), Cimetieres et traditions funeraires dans le monde islamique (Ankara, 1996). --"Poverty and Poor Relief in Eighteenth-Century Aleppo," Revue du Monde Musulman et de la Mediterranee, 55-56 (1990), 171-179.
