Doris Behrens-Abouseif (born 1946, Alexandria, Egypt) is a scholar of Islamic art and architecture. She is professor emerita at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. She obtained her master’s degree at the American University in Cairo and then her doctorate at the University of Hamburg in 1972. She subsequently held academic positions at the American University in Cairo and the University of Munich. From 2000 to 2014, she was the Nasser D. Khalili Chair of Islamic Art and Archaeology at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. Her research interests are largely focused on the arts and culture of Egypt and Syria in the Islamic period.

Selected Works:

Behrens-Abouseif, Doris (1989). Islamic Architecture in Cairo: An Introduction. Leiden, the Netherlands: E.J. Brill.

Behrens-Abouseif, Doris (1994). Egypt’s Adjustment to Ottoman Rule: Institutions, Waqf and Architecture in Cairo (16th & 17th Centuries).

Behrens-Abouseif, Doris (2007). Cairo of the Mamluks: A History of Architecture and its Culture. The American University in Cairo Press.

Behrens-Abouseif, Doris (2010). The Minarets of Cairo: Islamic Architecture from the Arab Conquest to the End of the Ottoman Period. Bloomsbury Academic.

Behrens-Abouseif, Doris (2019). The Book in Mamluk Egypt and Syria (1250-1517): Scribes, Libraries and Market. Brill.