Islam and the Humanities

Conference 2015

Faiz Ahmed

Assistant Professor of History, Brown University


Faiz Ahmed is assistant professor of history at Brown University and a specialist in the legal and constitutional history of the modern Middle East. Trained as a lawyer and social historian, Dr. Ahmed’s primary research explores the intersection of student and scholarly networks, constitutional movements, and “rule of law” ideology in the late Ottoman Empire, Afghanistan, and Iran during the long nineteenth century.