Matthew Gordon

Contact

• gordonms@muohio.edu
• Office: Room 246 Upham Hall, Oxford Campus
• 513-529-5128
• Office hours: M W 2-3:30

Title

• Associate Professor of History

Education

• PhD 1993, Columbia University
• MA, Columbia University
• BA, Drew University

Teaching and Research Interests

• Islamic and Middle East history
• Pre-modern world history

Recently taught courses

• HST 197 World History to 1500
• HST 321 Introduction to Islamic History
• HST 322 History of the Modern Middle East

Selected Publications

• “The Samarran Turkish Community in the Ta’rikh of al-Tabari, Al-Tabari: a Medieval Muslim Historian and his Work, ed. Hugh Kennedy, Darwin Press, 2008
• The Rise of Islam, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2005
• The Breaking of a Thousand Swords: A History of the Turkish Military of Samarra (A.H. 200-275/815-889 C.E.), State University of New York Press, 2001

Selected Grants and Awards

• National Endowment for the Humanities Collaborative Research Grant, “Ya’qubi Translation Project,” co-editor with Chase Robinson (Oxford University) and Lawrence Conrad (Hamburg University), 2005

Work in Progress

Dr. Gordon specializes in the socio-political history of the early Islamic world. He is currently working on two monographs. Ahmad ibn Tulun will be a biography of a ninth century military governor of Islamic Egypt. The Early Abbasid Empire is a study of the early Abbasid Empire (c. 750-945 CE). Dr. Gordon continues work on the Ya’qubi Translation Project, which will produce an annotated translation of the three extant works of the late ninth-century Muslim scholar, Ahmad ibn Abi Ya’qub al-Ya’qubi.