#  Omar Abdel-Ghaffar 

Center for Middle East Studies

M.A. (Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies) Columbia University

B.A. (Political Science) University of California

 

 

 



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Omar is interested in Mamluk agrarian law, practice, and administration. His interests include legal history, peasant history, and agrarian studies. 

 

 

 





 

 

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