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Past Member

Deborah Gerber Tor

Funding provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Affiliation

Historical Studies

Field of Study

Medieval Islamic History
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Deborah Tor will be writing a thematic history of the Great Seljuq dynasty (1040–1194), which inaugurated a thousand years of Turco-Mongol domination of the Middle East, and its formative role in the shaping of many of the religious, political, and social institutions of classical Islamic society.

Dates at IAS

Member
School of Historical Studies

Degrees

Harvard University
Ph.D.
2002