2137 Francis Scott Key
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
phone: 301-405-7448
fax: 301-314-9399
Email: aborrut@umd.edu

         Antoine Borrut specializes in early Islamic history and historiography

         His PhD, received in 2007 from La Sorbonne in Paris (France), was entitled “Between Memory and Power: the Syrian Space under the last Umayyads and the first Abbasids (ca. 72-193 AH/692-809 CE)” (in French) and will be published by Brill.

          He has previously taught at the University of Toulouse Le Mirail (France), the University of Saint-Joseph (Beirut, Lebanon), the University of Paris 8 Saint-Denis (France) and directed seminars at the University of Paris 1 La Sorbonne and at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences).

         He was also a research fellow of the Institut Français du Proche-Orient (French Institute of the Near East) in Damascus (Syria, 2002-2006) and a post-doctoral fellow, at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (French National Center for Scientific Research) in Paris (2007-2008).

         Borrut organized several workshops and conferences in the Middle East, in France and in the US, including the Umayyad Legacies’ international conference held in Damascus in 2006 (to be published by Brill soon). He has also published several journal articles mostly dealing with early Islamic Syria or Islamic historiography.

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