MECA: Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies Minor
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The MECA Minor

Participating Faculty




DANIEL MARTIN VARISCO
(program director)
Professor of Anthropology

[Ph.D., Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1982]


Contact

200E Davison Hall
516 463-5590
anthdmv@hofstra.edu

Click here for Faculty Website

Daniel Martin Varisco
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.




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