Charles Issawi

Charles Issawi (* 1916 in Cairo ; † December 8, 2000 in the USA ) was an economic historian .

Born into a Syrian Orthodox family, he studied at Victoria College in Alexandria and later at Magdalen College in Oxford , where he specialized in economics and history. He worked for a year in the Cairin Ministry of Finance and headed the research department of the Egyptian National Bank until 1943. He was briefly in the Arab Office in Washington DC and until 1955 in the Middle East department of the UN Secretariat. From 1943 to 1947 he taught as a professor of political science politics and economics at the American University of Beirut . He entered New York's Columbia University in 1951, where he was appointed Ragnar Nurkse Professor of Economics. There he also headed the Near and Middle East Institute. He came to Princeton in 1975, where he held the Bayard E. Dodge Professorship for Middle East Studies until his retirement in 1986.

Works

• Cross-cultural encounters and conflicts, Oxford Univ. Press, 1998
• The Middle East economy, Markus Wiener Publ., 1995
• The economic dimensions of Middle Eastern history, Darwin Press, 1990
• The Fertile Crescent, Oxford Univ. Pr.1988
• An economic history of the Middle East and North Africa, Methuen 1982
• The Arab world's legacy, The Darwin Press, 1981
• The economic history of Turkey, Univ. of Chicago Press, 1980
• The economic history of the Middle East, Univ. of Chicago Press, 1975
• Oil, the Middle East and the world, Sage, 1972
• The economic history of Iran, Univ. of Chicago Press, 1971
• Iqtiṣādīyāt batrūl aš-Šarq al-Ausaṭ, Muʾassasat Siǧill al-ʿArab, 1966
• The economic history of the Middle East, Univ. of Chicago Press, 1966
• Egypt in Revolution, Oxford Univ. Press, 1963
• The economics of Middle Eastern Oil, Praeger, Faber & Faber, 1962
• Egypt, Oxford Univ. Press, 1947

Individual evidence

1. ^ Wolfgang G. Schwanitz : In memoriam Charles Philip Issawi . (PDF; 168 kB) In: Orient , 43 (2002) 2, pp. 167–171.