(Program Director)
Professor of Anthropology
[Ph.D., Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1982]
Contact
200E Davison Hall
516 463-5590
anthdmv@hofstra.edu
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Primary Research Interests
Islam
History of Orientalism
Traditional Agriculture
Folk Astronomy
Red Sea and Indian Ocean Trade
Yemen Ethnography

Major Publications
Islam Obscured. New York: Palgrave, 2005.

Medieval Folk Astronomy and Agriculture in Arabia and the Yemen. Hampshire, England: Ashgate Publishing Limited., 1997.

Medieval Agriculture and Islamic Science. The Almanac of a Yemeni Sultan. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1994.