Full Name Kate Bennison Name Amira Bennison | ||
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Books The Great Caliphs: The Golden Age of the 'Abbasid Empire | ||
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Dr Amira K. Bennison, a.k.a. Kate Bennison, is a historian of the Middle East, currently Reader in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies in the University of Cambridge and fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge. She is well known for her frequent media appearances, particularly on the popular Radio 4 program In Our Time and such television series as Rageh Omaar's An Islamic History of Europe and The Life of Muhammad, Jim al-Khalili's Science and Islam and The Thirties in Colour.
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- Amira bennison muslim institute lecture 2013 ibn rushd a man for our times
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A philosopher islam clash in medieval morocco amira bennison peter adamson sir anthony kenny
Education
Bennison studied history at Cambridge, graduating in 1989 before switching to Arabic. She then pursued graduate work, with an MA at Harvard in Middle Eastern Studies in 1992, and her PhD at SOAS in Moroccan History in 1996. She was a Leverhulme research fellow at the University of Manchester. She became a lecturer at Cambridge in 1997.
Career
Contrary to popular misconception, she is not a Muslim (Amira in Arabic means "Princess"); her adopted Arabic name, 'Amira', was merely given to her by Egyptian friends of hers during a spell in Cairo and she consequently decided to stick with it.
Bennison's most recent book The Great Caliphs: the golden age of the ‘Abbasid empire was runner-up for the Longman-History Today Book of the Year Award 2009. In the view of critic Hugh N. Kennedy, she has "a lively and engaging style", and the book will be "the first port of call for anyone looking for an introduction to the 'golden age of Islam'."