Heather J. Sharkey

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According to Wikipedia, Heather J. Sharkey is an American historian of the Middle East and Africa, and of the modern Christian and Islamic worlds. Her books and articles have covered topics relating to nationalism, imperialism, colonialism, postcolonial studies, missionary movements, religious communities, and language politics, especially in Egypt and Sudan. She is currently Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania in the United States.

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Arab Identity and Ideology in Sudan: The Politics of Language, Ethnicity, and Race (2007) (176)
Living with Colonialism: Nationalism and Culture in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (2003) (90)
American Evangelicals in Egypt: Missionary Encounters in an Age of Empire (2008) (67)
Muslim Societies in African History (2004) (52)
Living with Colonialism (2003) (49)
Guerrilla Government: Political Changes in the Southern Sudan during the 1990s (2006) (48)
The Near East Since the First World War: A History to 1995, (1997) (38)
Sudan's Blood Memory: The Legacy of War, Ethnicity, and Slavery in Early South Sudan (2004) (36)
Nuer Dilemmas: Coping With Money, War, and the State (1998) (35)
The Challenge of Political Islam: Non-Muslims and the Egyptian State (2010) (33)
CHRISTIANS AMONG MUSLIMS: THE CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY IN THE NORTHERN SUDAN (2002) (30)
Rebel and Saint: Muslim Notables, Populist Protest, Colonial Encounters (Algeria and Tunisia, 1800-1904) (1998) (29)
Women, Work, and Economic Reform in the Middle East and North Africa (1998) (26)
Women in the Middle East and North Africa (1999) (26)
Pride, Faith, and Fear: Islam in Sub-Saharan Africa (2003) (24)
Ibn Khaldun and the Medieval Maghrib (1999) (19)
American missionaries and the Middle East : foundational encounters (2011) (17)
Islam, Sectarianism and Politics in Sudan Since the Mahdiyya (2015) (16)
Becoming Walata: A History of Saharan Social Formation and Transformation (2002) (15)
A History of Muslims, Christians, and Jews in the Middle East by Heather J. Sharkey (2017) (15)
“American Christians and Islam: evangelical culture and Muslims from the colonial period to the age of terrorism” (2010) (14)
Empire and Muslim conversion: historical reflections on Christian missions in Egypt (2005) (13)
Cultural Conversions: Unexpected Consequences of Christian Missionary Encounters in the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia (2013) (13)
Chronicles of Progress: Northern Sudanese Women in the Era of British Imperialism (2003) (11)
Colonialism, character‐building and the culture of nationalism in the Sudan, 1898–1956 (1998) (11)
Arabic Antimissionary Treatises: Muslim Responses to Christian Evangelism in the Modern Middle East (2004) (10)
A Century in Print: Arabic Journalism and Nationalism in Sudan, 1899–1999 (1999) (10)
Battle for Peace in Sudan: An Analysis of the Abuja Conferences, 1992-1993 [Review] (2002) (9)
Sayyid Abd al-Rahman al-Mahdi: A Study of Neo-Mahdism in the Sudan, 1899–1956 (2006) (9)
Language and Conflict: The Political History of Arabisation in Sudan and Algeria (2012) (9)
Holymen of the Blue Nile: The Making of an Arab-Islamic Community in the Nilotic Sudan, 1500-1850 (1994) (9)
Jihads and Crusades in Sudan From 1881 to the Present (2012) (8)
American Evangelicals in Egypt (2013) (8)
African Colonial States (2013) (8)
The Nile: Histories, Cultures, Myths (1999) (8)
Embracing the Divine: Passion and Politics in Christian Middle East (2011) (8)
Rethinking Sudan Studies: a Post-2011 Manifesto (2015) (7)
Domestic slavery in the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century northern Sudan (1992) (7)
Middle Eastern Women and the Invisible Economy (1999) (7)
Sudanese Arabic Bibles and the Politics of Translation (2011) (7)
Starvation and the State: Famine, Slavery, and Power in Sudan, 1883-1956 (2014) (6)
The British and Foreign Bible Society in Port Said and the Suez Canal (2011) (6)
American Priestess: The Extraordinary Story of Anna Spafford and the American Colony in Jerusalem [Review] (2008) (5)
A Research Portal (2014) (5)
Sacred Liberty: America's Long, Bloody, and Ongoing Struggle for Religious Freedom (2020) (4)
Luxury, Status, and the Importance of Slavery in the Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century Northern Sudan (2011) (4)
Colonialism and the culture of nationalism in the Northern Sudan, 1898-1956 (1998) (4)
An Egyptian in China: Ahmed Fahmy and the Making of “World Christianities” (2009) (4)
A Different Shade of Colonialism: Egypt, Great Britain, and the Mastery of the Sudan [Review] (2003) (4)
Photography and African Studies: A Bibliography (2001) (4)
Tabaqat of the Twentieth-Century Sudan: Arabic Biographical Dictionaries as a Source for Colonial History, 1898-1956 (1995) (4)
American Presbyterians, Freedmen's Missions, and the Nile Valley: Missionary History, Racial Orders, and Church Politics on the World Stage (2011) (3)
Ahmad Zayni Dahlan's al-Futuhat al-Islamiyya: A Contemporary View of the Sudanese Mahdi (1994) (3)
The Formation of the Sudanese Mahdist State: Ceremony and Symbols of Authority: 1882-1898 (2012) (3)
A New Crusade or an Old One (2003) (3)
'Ali 'Abd al-Latif wa thawrat 1924: bahth fi masadir al-thawra alsudaniyya (1996) (3)
La Belle Africaine: The Sudanese Giraffe who went to France (2015) (3)
Ambiguous Conversions: The Selective Adaptation of Religious Cultures in Colonial North Africa (2013) (2)
Mahdist Oral Praise Poetry as a Historical Source: Qurashi Muhammad Hasan's Qasa'id min Shu'ara'al-Mahdiyya (1994) (2)
Islam and Power in the Twentieth Century (2001) (2)
American Missionaries in Ottoman Lands: Foundational Encounters (2010) (2)
Two Sudanese Midwives (1998) (2)
Holy City on the Nile: Omdurman during the Mahdiyya, 1885-1898 (2011) (2)
Mohamed Benrabah, Language Conflict in Algeria: From Colonialism to Post-Independence . Bristol: Multilingual Matters, 2013, xiv +199 pp., 978 1 84769 964 0 (hardback) (2014) (2)
The Case of Henry Athanassian, an Armenian in the Suez Canal Zone: Questioning Assumptions about Missions and Missionaries (2015) (1)
Darfur: Colonial Violence, Sultanic Legacies and Local Politics, 1916–1956, by Chris Vaughan (2017) (1)
Book reviews (2000) (1)
American mission, egyptian church : The making of a coptic evangelical presbyterian community (2006) (1)
Middle East Missions: Nationalism, Religious Liberty, and Cultural Encounter (2011) (1)
Arabic Poetry, Nationalism and Social Change: Sudanese Colonial and Postcolonial Perspectives (2006) (1)
Le Soudan, un pays indivisible, dual ou pluriel ? (2013) (1)
History Rhymes? Late Ottoman Millets and Post-Ottoman Minorities in the Middle East (2018) (1)
The Communion of Women: Missions and Gender in Colonial Africa and the British Metropole (2011) (1)
The First Islamist Republic: Development and Disintegration of Islamism in the Sudan (review) (2011) (1)
P. M. HOLT, The Sudan of the Three Niles: The Funj Chronicle, 910–1288/1504–1871, Islamic History and Civilization: Studies and Texts (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1999). Pp. 228. $71.00 cloth. (2000) (1)
Arabic Antimissionary Treatises: A Select Annotated Bibliography (2004) (1)
The Mechanics of Colonial Rule (2003) (1)
Muslims, Christians, and Jews in the Middle East (2017) (0)
Elizabeth E. Prevost . The Communion of Women: Missions and Gender in Colonial Africa and the British Metropole . New York: Oxford University Press. 2010. Pp. x, 312. $120.00. (2011) (0)
An Unpredictable Gospel: American Evangelicals and World Christianity, 1812–1920. By Jay Riley Case. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. xiv + 311. pp. $99.00 cloth; $24.95 paper. (2013) (0)
ALICE MOORE-HARELL, Gordon and the Sudan: Prologue to the Mahdiyya, 1877–1880 (London: Frank Cass Publishers, 2001). Pp. 302. $54.50 cloth (2004) (0)
CHAPTER 4: Egyptian Nationalism, Religious Liberty, and the Rethinking of the American Mission, 1918–45 (2013) (0)
The American Missionary Encounter in Egypt (2013) (0)
Book Review: Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures. Vol. 6: Supplement and Index (2009) (0)
American Missionaries in Egypt, Gender Relations, and the Professional and Social Formation of Women, 1854–1967 (2021) (0)
Postcards from North Africa (2014) (0)
Epilogue: The Global History of American and Muslim Worlds before 1900 (2020) (0)
BRITISH POLICIES TOWARDS FEMALE CIRCUMCISION IN SUDAN (2008) (0)
Book Review: Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures. Vol. 2: Family, Law, and Politics (2006) (0)
Reforming the World: The Creation of America's Moral Empire . By Ian Tyrrell. America in the World. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2010. xiv + 322 pp. $35.00 cloth. (2011) (0)
CHAPTER 3: The Colonial Moment of the American Mission, 1882–1918 (2013) (0)
CONCLUSION: Conversions and Transformations (2013) (0)
Coping with Defeat: Sunni Islam, Roman Catholicism, and the Modern State. By Jonathan Laurence. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021. xxviii + 579 pages. $99.95 cloth, $35.00 paper. (2022) (0)
Book Review: Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures. Vol. 1: Methodologies, Paradigms, and Sources (2005) (0)
The Final Research Paper: Practical Steps for Students as They Generate Ideas, Conduct Research, and Produce Publishable Work (2011) (0)
CHAPTER 5: The Mission of the American University in Cairo (2013) (0)
ALICE MOORE-HARELL, Gordon and the Sudan: Prologue to the Mahdiyya, 18771880 (London: Frank Cass Publishers, 2001). Pp. 302. $54.50 cloth (2004) (0)
The Colonial Moment of the American Mission, 1882–1918 (2013) (0)
Reappraising The History of Arabic Culture in the Sudan by the Egyptian Scholar ‘Abd al-Majid ‘Abidin (2020) (0)
Assessing the Legacy of the Ottoman Reform of 1856: Possibilities, Impossibilities, and Situational Changes in Religious Freedom (2013) (0)
Rethinking Sudan Studies after the Independance of South Sudan (2015) (0)
COOPERATION BEYOND CONVERSION (2016) (0)
Introduction Part III European Soft Power and Christian Cultures at the Crossroads in Mandate Palestine (2020) (0)
Making an American Superpower: World Vision and U.S. Evangelicals (2020) (0)
Conclusion: The Colony and the NationLessons from the Sudan (2003) (0)
David Robinson. Muslim Societies in African History. New Approaches to African History series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xx + 220 pp. Maps. Illustrations. Glossary. Index. $55.00. Cloth. $19.00. Paper. (2004) (0)
On Christopher Tounsel's Chosen Peoples: Christianity and Political Imagination in South Sudan (2023) (0)
Let Them Not Return: Sayfo—The Genocide against the Assyrian, Syriac and Chaldean Christians in the Ottoman Empire. Edited by David Gaunt, Naures Atto, and Soner O. Barthoma. New York: Berghahn, 2017. x + 262 pp. $130 hardback; $27.95 paper. (2019) (0)
A Single Sudan, Two Sudans, Multiple Sudans? (2013) (0)
Being “Black,” Being “Sudanese”Colonial Education, Privilege, and National Identity (2003) (0)
The Islamic Foundations of Intercommunal Relations (2017) (0)
HASSAN AHMED IBRAHIM Sayyid Abd al-Rahman al-Mahdi: A Study of Neo-Mahdism in the Sudan, 1899–1956, Islam in Africa Series (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2004). Pp. 273. $134.00 cloth (2006) (0)
CHAPTER 2: The American Mission, Coptic Reform, and the Making of an Egyptian Evangelical Community, 1854–82 (2013) (0)
The Kingdom of God Has No Borders: A Global History of American Evangelicals. By Melani McAlister. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. xvi + 408 pages. $29.95 paperback. (2018) (0)
The Ottoman Experience (2017) (0)
Education, Acculturation, and Nationalist Networks (2003) (0)
Egyptian Nationalism, Religious Liberty, and the Rethinking of the American Mission, 1918–45 (2013) (0)
PHILOSOPHY, RELIGION, AND SCIENCE-Conflict, Conquest, and Conversion: Two Thousand Years of Christian Missions in the Middle East (2013) (0)
Book Review: Pilgrims of Christ on the Muslim Road: Exploring a New Path between Two Faiths (2008) (0)
Book Review: The Qur'an and the West (2007) (0)
Lawha li-tha`ir sudani: al-Imam al-Mahdi Muhammad Ahmad b. 'Abd Allah (1844-1885) (1993) (0)
Note on Transliteration, Translation, and Spelling (2013) (0)
Mover and Shaker: Grace Mary Crowfoot, Intimate Conversations, and Sudanese History (2016) (0)
Islam and the Prayer Economy: History and Authority in a Malian Town (review) (2006) (0)
Collaborating with Librarians (2014) (0)
The British and Foreign Bible Society’s Arabic Bible translations (2020) (0)
Christian Interculture: Texts and Voices from Colonial and Postcolonial Worlds. Edited by Arun W. Jones. World Christianity. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2021. viii + 252 pp. $99.95 hardcover. (2022) (0)
CHAPTER 1: The American Missionary Encounter in Egypt (2013) (0)
Book Review: New Faith in Ancient Lands: Western Missions in the Middle East in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries (2007) (0)
Samir Khalaf, Protestant Missionaries in the Levant: Ungodly Puritanism, 1820–60 (London: Routledge, 2012), 288 pp. ISBN 978-0-415-50544-4 (2013) (0)
Kim Searcy. The Formation of the Sudanese Mahdist State: Ceremony and Symbols of Authority: 1882–1898. Leiden: Brill, 2010. vii +165 pages, footnotes, bibliography, index. Cloth € 89, US$126 ISBN 978-9-004-18599-9. (2012) (0)
A Religion, Not a State: ‘Ali ‘Abd al-Raziq’s Islamic Justification of Political Secularism (2021) (0)
The display of religious identity: towards a theory of indistinguishability among Jews, Muslims, and Christians in the modern Middle East (2022) (0)
The Pivotal Era of Abdulhamid II, 1876–1909 (2017) (0)
The Mission of the American University in Cairo (2013) (0)
INTRODUCTION:: The Landscape of Religious Freedom (2021) (0)
Charlotte A. Quinn and Frederick Quinn. Pride, Faith, and Fear: Islam in Sub-Saharan Africa. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. vi + 175 pp. Bibliography. Index. $29.95. Cloth. (2004) (0)
Acting Egyptian: Theater, Identity, and Political Culture in Cairo, 1869–1930 by Carmen M. K. Gitre, and: Midnight in Cairo: The Divas of Egypt’s Roaring ’20s by Raphael Cormack (review) (2022) (0)
The Ottoman Empire in an Age of Reform: From Sultan Mahmud II to the End of the Tanzimat Era, 1808–1876 (2017) (0)
Conflict, Conquest, and Conversion: Two Thousand Years of Christian Missions in the Middle East [Review] (2013) (0)
Conflict, Conquest, and Conversion: Two Thousand Years of Christian Missions in the Middle East, by Eleanor H. Tejirian and Reeva Spector Simon (review) (2013) (0)
Serials Spoken Here (2021) (0)
Coming Together, Moving Apart: Ottoman Muslims, Christians, and Jews at the Turn of the Century (2017) (0)
Ian Coller, Arab France: Islam and the Making of Modern Europe, 1798–1831 (Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2011). Pp. 304. $60.00 cloth, $24.95 paper, 24.95 e-book. (2012) (0)
Battle for Peace in Sudan: An Analysis of the Abuja Conferences, 1992–1993 , by Steven Wondu and Ann Lesch. 247 pages, index, maps, photographs, appendices. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2000. $52.50 (Cloth) ISBN 0-7618-1516-3 (2002) (0)
Artillery of Fire: American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East (2008) (0)
CHAPTER 6: Turning to the Life of the Church: American Mission in an Age of Egyptian Decolonization and Arab-Israeli Politics, 1945–67 (2013) (0)
The Nation after the Colony (2003) (0)
Life and the RegimeThe Terms of Cooperation (2003) (0)

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