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.

2007 Asking the Right Questions: Two Engagements with Islam and Modernity. Political Theory, 35:5

n.d. Secular? Or Religious? Remarks on Islam and Conflict in Egypt (in preparation)

n.d. Notes on the Anthropology of the Fatwa: Reflections on Islamic Tradition and Authority (in preparation)