Basheer Nafi
Palestinian-born British researcher
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Basheer Musa Nafi (Arabic: بشير نافع) is Palestinian-born, living in the United Kingdom.[1] Nafi is a Professor of Middle East History and a Senior Researcher at Al Jazeera Centre for Studies.[2]
Early life
Nafi was born in the Rafah refugee camp in Gaza.[3] After the 1967 war, he moved to Jordan to live with his uncle and complete high school. In 1971, Nafi moved to Egypt to study veterinary medicine.[3] Nafi moved to the UK to undertake postgraduate study at King's College.[1]
Career
Nafi holds two PhDs, the first in microbiology from King's College, University of London (1987)[4] and the second in political history from the University of Reading (1996).[5] The second was published as a book in 1998, titled Arabism, Islamism and the Palestine Question, 1908-1941: A Political History.[6]
He taught Islamic history and Islamic studies at Birkbeck College of the University of London,[7] the Muslim College, and Markefield Institute of High Education.
Books
- Arabism, Islamism and the Palestine Question, 1908–1941: A Political History, Ithaca Press, Reading, 1998.
- Imperialism, Zionism and Palestinian Nationalism (in Arabic), Cairo, Dar al-Shuruq, 1999.
- The Rise and Decline of the Arab-Islamic Reform Movement, London, ICIT Papers, 2000.
- Islamic Thought in the Twentieth Century (co-editor; in association with S. Taji-Farouki), London, I. B. Tauris, 2004.
- The Palestinian strategic Report: 2005 (co-editor; in association with Muhsin Salih; in English and Arabic), Beirut, al-Zaytouna Centre for Studies, 2006.
- Iraq: Contexts of Unity and Disintegration. A Reading in Sunnism, Shi‘ism, and the Arab Identity (in Arabic), Cairo, Dar al-Shuruq, 2006.
- The Islamists (in Arabic), Beirut, al-Dar al-‘Arabiyya, 2010.
- On the Emergence and Triumph of Ahl al-Sunna Wal-Jama'a, 2023.