Dr Abdel Razzaq Takriti

DPhil (Oxon)

Lecturer in International History

Office Hours: Spring 2012-13 - Tuesdays 2-4pm

a.takriti@sheffield.ac.uk
 

+44 (0)114 22 22618
 

Jessop West 3.08

Major Publications

Biography

Abdel Razzaq Takriti joined the department in September 2012, having previously held a Junior Research Fellowship in Political History at St Edmund Hall, Oxford. His DPhil thesis examined the history of the Dhufar revolution in Oman (1965-1976) and was completed at St Antony’s College, Oxford in 2010. It received the Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA) 2011 Malcolm Kerr Award for Best Dissertation in the Humanities, and was jointly awarded the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) 2011 Leigh Douglas Memorial Prize for Best PhD Dissertation on a Middle Eastern topic in the Social Sciences or Humanities. Abdel Razzaq’s first monograph Monsoon Revolution: Republicans, Sultans, and Empires in Oman, 1965-76 is forthcoming from Oxford University Press. He is working on a second co-authored monograph, with Dr Karma Nabulsi, on the Palestinian revolution (1958-1992).

Membership of Professional Bodies

• Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA)
• British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES)
• American Historical Association

Research

Current Research

Abdel Razzaq is currently co-authoring a monograph with Dr Karma Nabulsi, Fellow in Politics at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, on the history of the Palestinian revolution (1958-1992). Emphasising the crucial role of middle and lower ranking revolutionaries, it highlights the importance of global networks in revolutionary organisation, contributing to the broader and emerging literature on transnational movements.

Research Interests

Research interests lie in the political, social, and intellectual history of the Arab world, with a particular focus on modern revolutions and revolutionary movements; political ideologies and currents; and Afro-Asian transnational trends and their social and cultural impact.

Public Engagement and Wider Impact

 To Follow.

Research Supervision and Teaching

Abdel Razzaq welcomes postgraduate students working on any aspect of modern Arab and Middle Eastern history, anti-colonialism, and Afro-Asian revolutions and liberation struggles.

Current PhD Students

To Follow.

Knowledge Exchange

Abdel Razzaq is a research fellow of, and contributor to, the British Academy sponsored “Teaching Contemporary Palestinian Political History” programme. This project pioneers collaboration and capacity sharing in the fields of history and politics between universities in the UK and the Arab world. Teaching materials developed in the course of the programme as well as hundreds of original written and oral sources will be provided online in a scholarly website that will be launched by the end of 2012.

Administrative Roles and Responsibilities

To Follow.

Selected Publications

- Monsoon Revolution: Republicans, Sultans, and Empires in Oman, 1965-76. Oxford: Oxford University Press, May 2013.