Dr Ali H Akhtar, PhD
Contact: For research questions, art consultation, or speaker invitations (in person & online), kindly write to: ali.akhtar@nyu.edu or connect on Linkedin.com/aliakhtarPhD
Biography: Global Historian and Bestselling Author of: (1) 1368: China & the Making of the Modern World, Stanford 2022 $30, Featured in the Wall Street Journal by Christie's curator Max Carter (2) Italy and the Islamic World: From Caesar to Mussolini, Edinburgh 2024 $30, Monograph & Student Textbook (3) Philosophers Sufis & Caliphs, Cambridge 2019 $30, Featured in the American Historical Review, with bestselling Turkish translation: Filozoflar ve Halifeler, Vakıfbank Kültür Yayınları 2022
Experience: Classroom & Museum-Based Educator | College & K-12 Teaching Experience at NYU, Bard College, Bates College, Bates High School Scholars Program (Lewiston High School), Ewha Women's University Seoul, University of Wisconsin—Madison | Art & Education Consultant at the Worcester Art Museum's Higgins Armory Collection, the USA's second largest armory
Current Academic Appointments: (1) Professor of Global History & Islamic Arts and Humanities at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences & Hillary Clinton Center for Women's Empowerment at AUI Morocco (Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane), (2) Visiting Scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Institute for Regional and International Studies, (3) Doctoral Alumnus, New York University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
mail: ali.akhtar@nyu.edu or a.akhtar@aui.ma or aha7@cornell.edu
Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/aliakhtarPhD
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Supervisors: Doctoral Supervisors: Dr. Everett Rowson (NYU), Dr. Marion Katz (NYU), Dr. Maribel Fierro (CSIC), Dr. Cynthia Robinson (Cornell)
Biography: Global Historian and Bestselling Author of: (1) 1368: China & the Making of the Modern World, Stanford 2022 $30, Featured in the Wall Street Journal by Christie's curator Max Carter (2) Italy and the Islamic World: From Caesar to Mussolini, Edinburgh 2024 $30, Monograph & Student Textbook (3) Philosophers Sufis & Caliphs, Cambridge 2019 $30, Featured in the American Historical Review, with bestselling Turkish translation: Filozoflar ve Halifeler, Vakıfbank Kültür Yayınları 2022
Experience: Classroom & Museum-Based Educator | College & K-12 Teaching Experience at NYU, Bard College, Bates College, Bates High School Scholars Program (Lewiston High School), Ewha Women's University Seoul, University of Wisconsin—Madison | Art & Education Consultant at the Worcester Art Museum's Higgins Armory Collection, the USA's second largest armory
Current Academic Appointments: (1) Professor of Global History & Islamic Arts and Humanities at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences & Hillary Clinton Center for Women's Empowerment at AUI Morocco (Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane), (2) Visiting Scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Institute for Regional and International Studies, (3) Doctoral Alumnus, New York University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
mail: ali.akhtar@nyu.edu or a.akhtar@aui.ma or aha7@cornell.edu
Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/aliakhtarPhD
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Supervisors: Doctoral Supervisors: Dr. Everett Rowson (NYU), Dr. Marion Katz (NYU), Dr. Maribel Fierro (CSIC), Dr. Cynthia Robinson (Cornell)
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We live in a time when discussions of the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) role in geopolitics and of its paramount leader Xi Jinping’s vision of the global order show up regularly in news reports. What can books about China offer to those interested in cross-cultural interactions before the current era? And how can the burgeoning field of global history help revise our understanding of China’s past? The two books under review pursue deeply divergent approaches to these interrelated questions, both of which have topical as well as scholarly significance.
Alexander Statman’s A Global Enlightenment: Western Progress and Chinese Science (2023) is a magnificent intellectual history of the late Enlightenment’s interest in Chinese knowledge traditions, revealing their central role in European debates over the meaning and value of “progress.” By contrast, Ali Humayun Akhtar’s 1368: China and the Making of the Modern World (2022) is an ambitious macrohistory of imperial China’s exchanges with neighboring and distant states.
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We live in a time when discussions of the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) role in geopolitics and of its paramount leader Xi Jinping’s vision of the global order show up regularly in news reports. What can books about China offer to those interested in cross-cultural interactions before the current era? And how can the burgeoning field of global history help revise our understanding of China’s past? The two books under review pursue deeply divergent approaches to these interrelated questions, both of which have topical as well as scholarly significance.
Alexander Statman’s A Global Enlightenment: Western Progress and Chinese Science (2023) is a magnificent intellectual history of the late Enlightenment’s interest in Chinese knowledge traditions, revealing their central role in European debates over the meaning and value of “progress.” By contrast, Ali Humayun Akhtar’s 1368: China and the Making of the Modern World (2022) is an ambitious macrohistory of imperial China’s exchanges with neighboring and distant states.