Sharkey, Heather
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Professor, Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures, University of Pennsylvania
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Heather J. Sharkey is a Professor in the Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures at the University of Pennsylvania.
Research Interests
Middle East
North Africa
Sudan
Egypt
Arabic sociolinguistics
food history
food studies
Wikipedia
World Christianity
postcolonial studies
nationalism
British Empire
U.S. transnational history
business history
migration
museum studies
North Africa
Sudan
Egypt
Arabic sociolinguistics
food history
food studies
Wikipedia
World Christianity
postcolonial studies
nationalism
British Empire
U.S. transnational history
business history
migration
museum studies
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Publication Jihads and Crusades in Sudan From 1881 to the Present(2012-01-01) Sharkey, Heather JThis chapter grapples with several difficult questions that arise from the history of conquest, revolution, and colonial rule in Sudan. To what extent was the Mahdist jihad anti-Christian at its inception; to what extent did the jihad reflect, instead, a battle among Muslims over the nature of Islamic government and society? How did Muslim religious sensibilities influence popular responses to British colonialism after 1898? To what extent did jihadist discourses persist among Sudanese Muslims, both in the Anglo-Egyptian period and in the decades following decolonization? Reciprocally, to what extent were British policies anti-Muslim? How did British fears of Muslim “fanaticism” influence colonial policies on education, administration, and public health, and did these policies amount to a series of “colonial crusades”?Publication Women in the Middle East and North Africa(1999-12-01) Sharkey, Heather JPublication Muslim Societies in African History(2004-12-01) Sharkey, Heather JPublication Transcription of Alice Paul (1885-1977), The Legal Position of Women in Pennsylvania(2025) Sharkey, Heather; Ellen Miller; Murad, Maria; Lindsey PerlmanThis document presents a complete transcription of the PhD thesis of Alice Paul (1885-1977), "The Legal Position of Women in Pennsylvania," presented in Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania and completed in 1912. The thesis, which was never published, survives in one copy, a holograph manuscript housed in the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts (Ms. Coll. 680). In a brief introduction, the authors describe their transcription work.Publication American Missionaries in Ottoman Lands: Foundational Encounters(2010-01-01) Sharkey, Heather JPublication Arab France: Islam and the Making of Modern Europe, 1798–1831(2012-08-01) Sharkey, Heather JPublication A Religion, Not a State: ‘Ali ‘Abd al-Raziq’s Islamic Justification of Political Secularism(2010-01-01) Sharkey, Heather JPublication The Final Research Paper: Practical Steps for Students as They Generate Ideas, Conduct Research, and Produce Publishable Work(2011-10-18) Sharkey, Heather JPublication Assessing the Legacy of the Ottoman Reform of 1856: Possibilities, Impossibilities, and Situational Changes in Religious Freedom(2013-12-30) Sharkey, Heather JPublication Battle for Peace in Sudan: An Analysis of the Abuja Conferences, 1992-1993 [Review](2002-01-01) Sharkey, Heather JIn 1992, in an effort to end the Sudanese civil war, President Ibrahim Babangida of Nigeria offered to sponsor peace talks between the Sudanese government (dominated by the National Islamic Front), and the southern-based Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM). Held in the Nigerian capital of Abuja in 1992 and 1993, the talks ultimately ended in failure, allowing one of the world's long est and deadliest conflicts to continue unabated. Battle for Peace in Sudan is a fascinating study of these negotiations, written by Wondu, who served as official notetaker of the SPLM delegation, and Lesch, a political scientist and Sudan specialist. The book should be required reading for anyone interested in the religious dynamics of the second Sudanese civil war, the start of which, in 1983, coincided with the regime's introduction of Shari'a hudud laws. This assertion of Islamic law, which grew stronger after 1989, antagonized the predominantly non-Muslim southern Sudanese population, and added to longstanding grievances about the country's grossly unequal regional distribution of political power and wealth.