Rate My Professor Faiz Ahmed

Ahmed’s first monograph, Afghanistan Rising: Islamic Law and Statecraft between the Ottoman and British Empires (Harvard University Press, 2017), won the American Historical Association’s John F. Richards Book Prize in South Asian History in 2018 and was shortlisted for the British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize in Middle East Studies. His second book, Ottoman Americana: The Late Ottoman Empire and the Early United States, is under contract with Princeton University Press. Select peer-reviewed publications include “Courts and Constitutions in South Asia and the Global South: A View from the Middle East” in Law and History Review (2023), “Meddling with Medals, Defending the Dead: Late Ottoman Soft Power from South Asia to North America” in International History Review (2021), “Success, Failure, and Other Historical Crafts” in Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East (2021), and “In the Name of a Law: Islamic Legal Modernism and the Making of Afghanistan’s 1923 Constitution” in International Journal of Middle East Studies (2016). Ahmed has held major fellowships as Visiting Fellow at Harvard Law School’s Program on Law and Society in the Muslim World (2023–2024), Senior Fellow at Koç University’s Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (2019–2020), National Endowment for the Humanities Advanced Fellow via the American Research Institute in Turkey (2016–2017), Fulbright Scholar in Cairo (2003), and others from the Social Science Research Council and Council of American Overseas Research Centers.