Nasser Rabbat

Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Architecture
Director, Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture (AKPIA)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA

Books and Edited Volumes

  • المصري Taqiy al-Din al-Maqrizi: Wijdan al-Tarikh al-Masri (Cairo: Dar Turath for Research and Studies, 2024).
  • Nasser Rabbat. Critical Encounters, DAS2, Raafat Majzoub et al., eds. (Beirut: Dongola Limited Editions, 2023). DAS 02 | Critical Encounters – Nasser Rabbat
  • Writing Egypt: Al-Maqrizi and His Historical Project (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2023) Writing Egypt
  • Winner of the British-Kuwait Friendship Society Prize in Middle Eastern Studies, 2023.
  • عمارة المدن الميتة: نحو قراءة جديدة للتاريخ السوري‘Imarat al-Mudun al-Mayyita: Nahwa Qira’a Jadida lil-Tarikh al-Suri (The Architecture of the Dead City: Toward a New Reading of Syrian History) (Doha: Hamad bin Khalifa University Press, 2018). ‫عمارة المدن الميتة‬ (Arabic Edition)
  • The Destruction of Cultural Heritage: From Napoléon to ISIS, Online Book, co-edited with Pamela Karimi, published by The Aggregate Architectural History Collaborative, December 12, 2016. The Destruction of Cultural Heritage: From Napoléon to ISIS
  • النقد التزاماً: نظرات في التاريخ والعروبة والثورةAl-Naqd Iltizaman: Nazarat fi-l Tarikh wal ‘Ururba wal Thawra (Criticism as Commitment: Viewpoints on History, Arabism, and Revolution) (Beirut: Riad Alrayyes Publisher, 2015). النقد التزماً: نظرات في التاريخ العروبة والثورة
  • Editor, The Courtyard House between Cultural Reference and Universal Relevance. (London: Ashgate, 2010).  http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9780754638438 
  • Mamluk History Through Architecture: Building, Culture, and Politics in Mamluk Egypt and Syria (London: I. B. Tauris, 2010).
  • Received the British-Kuwait Friendship Society Prize in Middle Eastern Studies, 2011. Available online on Bloomsbury Collections, Mamluk History Through Architecture: Monuments, Culture and Politics in Medieval Egypt and Syria
  • المدن الميتة: دروس من ماضيها ورؤى لمستقبلهاAl-Mudun al-Mayyita: Durus min Madhih wa-Ru’an li-Mustaqbaliha (The Dead Cities: Lessons from its History and Views on its Future) (Damascus: al-Aws Publishers, 2010).
  • The Citadel of Cairo: A Guidebook (Cairo: Supreme Council of Antiquities, 2010), in English and Arabic.
  • Making Cairo Medieval, eds. Nezar AlSayyad, Irene Bierman, and Nasser Rabbat (Lantham, Md.: Lexington Press, 2005).
  • ثقافة البناء وبناء الثقافة: بحوث ومقالات في نقد وتاريخ العمارة Thaqafat al Bina’ wa Bina’ al-Thaqafa: Buhuth wa Maqalat fi Naqd wa Tarikh al-‘Imara. (The Culture of Building and Building Culture: Essays and Articles on Criticism and History of Architecture) (Beirut: Riad Alrayyes Publisher, 2002).
  • Interpreting the Self: Autobiography in the Arabic Literary Tradition, ed. D. Reynolds (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001).  Co-author (with K. Brustad, M. Cooperson, J. Elias, N. Khoury, J. Lowry, Sh. Toorawa, D. F. Reynolds, and D. Stewart). https://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft2c6004x0;query=india;brand=ucpress
  • Arabic Translation ترجمة النفس: السيرة الذاتية في الأدب العربي Tarjamat al-Nafs, al-Sira al-Dhatiyya fi-l Adab al-‘Arabi, Sa‘id al-Ghanimi (abu Dhabi, Kalima Project, 2010)
  • The Citadel of Cairo: A New Interpretation of Royal Mamluk Architecture, (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1995).