Hussein Ali Agrama

(PhD, Johns Hopkins, 2005) Assistant Professor of Anthropology and of the Social Sciences in the College, has ongoing research interests in the anthropology of law, religion, Islam, and the Middle East; and in secularism, law and colonial power, and the genealogies of sovereignty and emergency states.

E-mail: hagrama@uchicago.edu

Curriculum Vitae (PDF)

Publications:

2005  Law Courts and Fatwa Councils in Modern Egypt: An Ethnography of Islamic Legal Practice. PhD Dissertation, Johns Hopkins University.

2006  Asking the Right Questions: Two Engagements with Islam and Modernity. Political Theory, 35:5.

n.d.  Secularism, Sovereignty, Indeterminacy: Is Egypt a Secular or a Religious State? (under review for Comparative Studies in Society and History). 

n.d.  Ethics, Authority, Tradition: Towards an Anthropology of the Fatwa (under review for American Ethnologist).

n.d.  Islamist Lawyers in an Emergency State: An Alternative Language of Justice (in preparation).

n.d.  The Formation of Liberal Privacy in Modern Egypt (in preparation)

n.d.  Religious Authority in Egypt and France: Comaprative Remarks on the Practices of the Fatwa (in preparation)

n.d.  Islam at Law in Modern Egypt: Secular or Religious? (book manuscript in preparation).