#  Paul Walker 

Deputy Director for Academic Programs, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago

 

 

 



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Paul Walker, Deputy Director for Academic Programs, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago, (Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1974). A former director of the American Research Center in Cairo (1976-86), he has published more than a dozen books, among them *Early Philosophical Shiism: The Ismaili Neoplatonism of Abū Yaʿqūb al-Sijistānī* (Cambridge, 1993); *Ḥamīd al-Dīn al-Kirmānī: Ismaili Thought in the Age of al-Ḥākim* (London, 1999); *Caliph of Cairo: al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, 996-1021* (Cairo, 2009).

 

 

 





 

 

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     [2022 Conference](/year/2022)