Caesar E. Farah

Caesar E. Farah (March 13, 1929 - November 26, 2009) was a professor of history at the University of Minnesota.[1][2]

Caesar E. Farah
Born1929
Died2009
EraModern era
RegionIslamic studies

Farah was born in Portland, Oregon, and received a B.A. (1952) from Stanford University, before then studying at Princeton University, where he received an M.A. (1955) and Ph.D. (1957).[3] After serving as a cultural affairs officer in New Delhi and Karachi, he began his teaching career at Portland State College from 1959-1963, teaching history and Near Eastern languages. From 1963-1964, Farah taught at Los Angeles State College, and then became Associate Professor of Near Eastern Language and Literature at Indiana University in Bloomington, 1964-1969. He joined the faculty of the University of Minnesota as Professor of Middle Eastern Studies in 1969, and remained there until his retirement in 2008.[4]

Works
  • The Eternal Message of Muhammad Dec 28, 1993[5]
  • An Arab's Journey to Colonial Spanish America: The Travels of Elias Al-Musili in the Seventeenth Century Nov 2003[5]
  • The Sultan's Yemen: 19th-Century Challenges to Ottoman Rule Jun 29, 2002[5]
  • Islam Belief's and Observances[5]
  • Arabs and Young Turks: Ottomanism, Arabian and Islamism in the Ottoman Empire 1908-1918 Jun 22, 1998[5]
  • Modernization in the Middle East: The Ottoman Empire and Its Afro-Asian Successors[5]
  • Islam Jan 2000[5]
  • A guide to current research on Yemen 1987[5]
  • The dhayl in medieval Arabic historiography 1967[5]

References
  1. hist.umn.edu
  2. Search Results: University of Minnesota
  3. Directory of American Scholars, 6th ed. (Bowker, 1974), Vol. I, p. 187.
  4. Directory of American Scholars, 6th ed. (Bowker, 1974), Vol. I, p. 187; "Dr. Caesar Farah." StarTribune, December 1, 2009, accessed July 9, 2021.
  5. Amazon.com: Subjects: Books: Nonfiction, Literature & Fiction, Professional & Technical, Science & More
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