Abdel Razzaq Takriti is a historian of anticolonialism, revolutions, intellectual and political currents, and state formation in the modern Arab world. He is the author of Monsoon Revolution: Republicans, Sultans, and Empires in Oman, 1965-1976 (Oxford University Press, 2013; paperback edition, 2016). The book was a finalist for the Royal Historical Society’s Gladstone Prize for best debut book in non-British history, and received honorable mention from University of Cambridge’s British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize for the best scholarly work on the Middle East. It was translated to Arabic as Dhufar: Thawrat al-Riyah al-Mawsimiyya (Jadawel, 2019). Professor Takriti is also the co-author (with Karma Nabulsi) of the digital humanities project The Palestinian Revolution (Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford, 2016). He has published extensively in a range of edited volumes and major scholarly journals including The American Historical Review and Radical History Review. In 2022, his research was the subject of an episode of Al Jazeera Arabic’s Al-Muqabala.
Professor Takriti received his doctorate from St Antony’s College, University of Oxford. His dissertation was awarded the Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA) Malcolm Kerr Prize for best doctoral dissertation in the humanities and the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) Leigh Douglas Memorial Prize for best doctoral dissertation in the social sciences or the humanities. He was the Founding Director of the Arab-American Educational Foundation Center for Arab Studies at the University of Houston, and served in 2022/2023 as the Mahmoud Darwish Visiting Chair in Palestinian Studies at Brown University. He previously taught at the University of Oxford and the University of Sheffield in the UK. A winner of several teaching awards, he received, in 2019, the prestigious Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA) Undergraduate Education Award in recognition of his pedagogical contributions. He welcomes PhD and MA students working on modern Arab history and global histories of colonialism and anti-colonialism.
Selected Publications
- Monsoon Revolution: Republicans, Sultans, and Empires in Oman, 1965-76. Oxford: Oxford University Press (Oxford Historical Monographs Series), 2013; paperback edition 2016.
- Translated into Arabic as Dhufar: Thawrat al-Riyah al-Mawsimiyya. Beirut: Jadawel, 2019.
- (With Karma Nabulsi) The Palestinian Revolution. Oxford University Department of Politics and International Relations, 2016.
- “Embodying Solidarity in the Heart of Empire”. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Vol.44, 2024 (Forthcoming).
- “Forward” to Alice Wilson’s Afterlives of Revolution. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023.
- (With Hicham Safieddine) “Arab Socialism,” in Van Der Linden, Marcel (ed.). The Cambridge History of Socialism, vol. 2. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022.
- “The Kurd and the Wind: The Politics and Poetics of Palestinian-Kurdish Affiliation,” in Harrak, Amir (ed.). The Political and Cultural History of Kurds, Vol.2. New York: Peter Lang, 2021.
- “’Who Will Hang The Bell?’ The Palestinian Habba of 2021”. Journal of Palestine Studies. Vol. 50, Issue 4, November 2021.
- “ The Arab Left: From Rumbling Ocean to Revolutionary Gulf,” in Guirguis, Laure (ed.). The Arab Lefts: Histories and Legacies, 1950s-1970s. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020.
- “Colonial Coups and the War on Popular Sovereignty,” American Historical Review, Volume 124, Issue 3, June 2019.
- “Before BDS: Lineages of Boycott in Palestine,” Radical History Review, Issue 134, May 2019.
- “Political Praxis in the Gulf: Ahmad al-Khatib and the Movement of Arab Nationalists, 1948-1969,” in Hanssen, Jens; Weiss, Max (eds.). Arabic Thought Against the Authoritarian Age: Towards an Intellectual History of the Present. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
- “The 1970 Coup in Oman Reconsidered,” Journal of Arabian Studies, Volume 3, Issue 2, December 2013.