Doris Behrens-Abouseif

Doris Behrens-Abouseif (born 1946, Alexandria, Egypt^[1]) is a scholar of Islamic art and architecture. She is professor emerita at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.^[2]

She obtained her master's degree at the American University in Cairo and then her doctorate at the University of Hamburg in 1972.^[2][3] She subsequently held academic positions at the American University in Cairo and the University of Munich.^[4] From 2000 to 2014, she was the Nasser D. Khalili Chair of Islamic Art and Archaeology at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.^[2] Her research interests are largely focused on the arts and culture of Egypt and Syria in the Islamic period.^[2][5]

Selected works

• Behrens-Abouseif, Doris (1989). Islamic Architecture in Cairo: An Introduction. Leiden, the Netherlands: E.J. Brill. ISBN 9789004096264.
• Behrens-Abouseif, Doris (1994). Egypt's Adjustment to Ottoman Rule: Institutions, Waqf and Architecture in Cairo (16th & 17th Centuries). Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-49311-7.
• Behrens-Abouseif, Doris (2007). Cairo of the Mamluks: A History of Architecture and its Culture. The American University in Cairo Press. ISBN 9789774160776.
• Behrens-Abouseif, Doris (2010). The Minarets of Cairo: Islamic Architecture from the Arab Conquest to the End of the Ottoman Period. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 978-1-84885-539-7.
• Behrens-Abouseif, Doris (2019). The Book in Mamluk Egypt and Syria (1250-1517): Scribes, Libraries and Market. Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-38700-3.