NASSER O. RABBAT
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Nasser Rabbat is associate professor in the History, Theory and Criticism section of the Department of Architecture and Aga Khan Professor of the History of Islamic Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His specialties include early and medieval Islamic art and architecture, medieval urban history and historiography, vernacular architecture, and post-colonial criticism and its ramifications for the study of architectural history.

He is the author of The Citadel of Cairo: A New Interpretation of Mamluk Royal Architecture (Brill 1995). He is preparing two volumes for publication: Historicizing the City: The Significance of Maqrizi's Khitat of Cairo, and Shaping the Mamluk Image: The Scope of the Sources.

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