Education
Ph.D. University of Michigan, 1967.
Selected Bibliography
Books and Pamphlets: Authored and Edited:
And Adon A. Gordus. Determining the Silver Content of Coins Non-Destructively Using Neutron Activation Analysis. Ann Arbor: Department of Chemistry, 1967. 10pp.
Assistant Editor. Near Eastern Numismatics, Iconography, Epigraphy and History: Studies in Honor of George C. Miles. Dickran K. Kouymjian, ed. Beirut: American University of Beirut Press, 1974. 478pp.
A Near East Studies Handbook, 570 -1974. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1974. 147 pp. 2nd ed., 1977. 166 pp.
Co-editor with C. Sheikholeslami and J. Clear. Near Eastern Civilizations Through Art. Seattle: University of Washington Extension Division, 1977. 48 pp.
Co-editor with Irene A. Bierman. The Warp and Weft of Islam. Seattle: Henry Art Gallery, 1978. 128pp.
Co-editor with Norman D. Nicol. Paul Balog. A Catalogue of Ayyubid Coins. London: Royal Numismatic Society, 1980. 334 pp.
Norman D. Nicol, Raafat el-Nabarawy and Jere L. Bacharach. Catalog of the Islamic Coins, Glass Weights, Dies and Medals in the Egyptian National Library. (ARCE Catalogs.) Malibu, Ca.: Undena Publications, 1982. 313 pp.
A Middle East Studies Handbook. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1984 and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984. 160 pp. Reprint with corrections, 1986.
And Irene A. Bierman. A Viewers Guide to Symbols of Islam: A Telecourse Series. Seattle: University of Washington Middle East Center - Occasional Papers #2, 1986. 85pp.
Editor. Andrew S. Ehrenkreutz. Monetary Change and Economic History in the Medieval Muslim World. London, Varorium Reprints, 1992.
Editor. Restoration and Conservation of Islamic Monuments in Egypt. [Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 1995].
Co-editor with Lawrence I. Conrad and Patricia Crone. Martin Hinds. Studies in Early Islamic History. Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam, No. 4 [Princeton: Darwin Press, 1996].
Editor. Fustat Finds: Beads, Coins, Medical Instruments, Textiles and Other Artifacts from the Awad Collection [Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2002]
Jere L. Bacharach, Raafat Muhammad al-Nabarawy, Sherif Sayed Anwar and Ahmed Mohammed Yousef. A Complete Catalog [Sylloge] of the Glass Weights, Vessel Stamps & Ring Weights in the Gayer-Anderson Museum [Mathaf Bayt al-Kritiliyya], Cairo – 2005 [www.amnumsoc.org] (A catalog of almost 1,100 items).
Islamic History through Coins: An Analysis and Catalogue of Tenth Century Ikhshidid Coins, [Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2006]. [Co-winner, Samir Shamma Prize in Islamic Numismatics, Royal Numismatic Society of Great Britain, for 2006 -2007]
Articles:
"Early Islamic Mint Output." Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient (JESHO). X(1966):212-241.
"Studies in the Fineness of Silver Coins." JESHO . XI(1968):298-317.
"A Few Unpublished Mamluk Dirhams." American Numismatic Society Museum Notes (ANSMN) . XIV(1968):163-169.
"Circassian Monetary Policy: Silver." Numismatic Chronicle . 7th series. XI(1971):267-281.
"Numismatic Studies in the Arab World." American Research Center in Egypt Newsletter . 79(1971):14-16.
(With Adon A. Gordus.) "The Purity of Sasanian Silver Coins: An Introduction." Journal of the American Oriental Society (JAOS) . 92(1972):280-283.
"The Dinar versus the Ducat." International Journal of Middle East Studies (IJMES) . IV(1973):77-96.
"Economic and Social Problems in Eleventh-Century Egypt." American Philosophical Society for 1972 Year Book . 1973:558-559.
(With Henri Amin Awad.) "The Problem of the Obverse and the Reverse in Islamic Numismatics." Numismatic Chronicle . 7th series. XIII(1973):183-191.
(With Henri Amin Awad.) "The Early Islamic Bronze Coinage of Egypt: Additions." Near Eastern Numismatics ... D.Kouymjian, ed. (Beirut: AUB Press, 1974):185-192.
(With Henri Amin Awad.) "A Hoard of Ikhshidid Dirhams." al-Abhath . XXIV(1974):51-58.
"Al-Ikhshid, the Hamdanids and the Caliphate: The Numismatic Evidence." JAOS 94(1974):360-370.
"Muhammad ibn Tughj al-Ikhshid." Speculum. 1975:586-612.
(With Samir Shamma). "Les Premiers dirhems ikhshidides." Revue numismatique. 6e serie. XVII(1975):139-144.
"Circassian Monetary Policy: Copper." JESHO. XIX(1976):32-47.
(With Henri Amin Awad.) "An Andarab Dirham of A.H. 270/ 883-884 A.D.” Spink's Numismatic Circular. Feb., 1976: 50-57.
"Circassian Mamluk Historians and their Quantitative Economic Data," Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt. (JARCE) XII (1975): 75-88.
"Andarab and the Banijurids." Afghanistan Journal. III(1976):147-150.
"Foreign Coins, Forgers and Forgeries in Fifteenth Century Egypt." Actes de 8eme congres International de Numismatique. Paris: Bales, 1976:501-511.
"Islamic Art." Near Eastern Civilizations Through Art. C. Sheikholeslami, et al., ed. Seattle: University of Washington Extension Division, 1977:31-45.
"The Modern Arab World: A Select Bibliography." Middle East Review. XI(1978):51-53.
"Hoard of Muslim Dirhams from Tel Ashdad," Atiqot. XIV(1981):83-92.
"Note on a Late Mamluk Hoard of Dinars." Atiqot. XIV(1981):116-117.
(With Irene A. Bierman.) "Oriental Carpets, Islamic Society and the West." Arts and Antiques. March, 1981:64-73.
"African Military Slaves in the Medieval Middle East: The Cases of Iraq (869-955) and Egypt (868 -1171)." IJMES. XIII(1981):471-495.
(With Henri Amin Awad.) "Rare Early Egyptian Islamic Coins and Coin Weights: The Awad Collection." JARCE. XVIII(1981):51-56.
"Monetary Movements in Egypt, 1171-1517." Precious Metals and the Pattern of Commerce in the Late Medieval World Economy. John Richards, ed. (Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 1983): 159-182.
"al-Aziz." Dictionary of the Middle Ages. N.Y.: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1983. II:28.
"Palestine in the policies of Tulunid and Ikhshidid Governors of Egypt A.H. 254-358/868-969 A.D." Egypt and Palestine: A Millenium of Association (868-1948). Ammon Cohen and Gabriel Baer, ed. (N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, 1984): 51-65.
"Ikhsidhids." Dictionary of the Middle Ages. 1985 VI: 416-418.
"The Islamic Middle East and Archaeology," Art and Archaeology in the Mediterranean World. A.L.H. Robbins, ed. (Seattle: Seattle Society. Archeaological Institute of America, 1985): 101-114.
"Islamic Damascus and Aleppo," Elba to Damascus: An Exhibition Catalogue. Harvey Weiss, ed. (Washington, D.C.,: Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibitions Services, 1985): 477-484.
"Data Bank Uses: Examples from the Seattle Art Museum and the Philadelphia Museum of Art." Arts & the Islamic World. IV, #4 (1987/1988):45-47.
"Tulunids." Dictionary of the Middle Ages. XII: 223-225.
"The Coinage of the Baridi." Proceedings of the 10th International Numismatic Congress. (London, 1989): 391-400.
"Administrative Complexes, Palaces, and Citadels: Changes in the Loci of Medieval Muslim Rule." Ottoman Power and Urban Structure. I. Bierman, R. Abou-El-Haj, & D. Preziosi, ed. (New Rochelle, N.Y.: Aristide D. Caratzas, 1991): 105-122.
"Muhammad b. Tughdj al-Ikhshid," Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd ed., VII, 411.
"The Court-Citadel: An Islamic Urban Symbol of Power." Urbanism in Islam, (Tokyo, 1989):III, 206-245.
"The Coinage of Kafur," Israel Numismatic Journal, X (1988-9): 71-79.
"Al-Mansur and Umayyad Dirhams," Yarmouk Numismatics, IV (1992): 7 - 17. V (1993): 43. Arabic translation by S. Shamma, pp. 27 - 38 (Arabic section).
"Laqab for a Future Caliph: The Case of the Abbasid al-Mahdi," JAOS 113 (1993): 271-74.
"Restoration and Conservation of Islamic Monuments in Egypt," Newsletter of the American Research Center in Egypt. Number 161/162 [Summer/Spring 1993]: 19-20.
"The Ducat in Fourteenth Century Egypt," Itineraires d'Orient: Rex Orientales: VI [1994]:95-102.
With Dr. Siham al-Mahdi. "A Study in Fatimid [sic.] Numismatics," [in Arabic] The Egyptian Historian: Journal of the Department of History, Cairo University. X [Jan. 1993]: 107-19.
"Al-Amin's Designated Successor: The Limitations of Numismatic Evidence," JAOS 1996: 108-13.
"Marwanid Umayyad Building Activities: Speculations on Patronage," Muqarnas XIII[1996]: 27-44.
“Islamic Numismatics: The State of the Art at the End of the Twentieth Century,” Yarmouk Numismatics 9(1997): 7-18.
“Thoughts on Pennies and Other Monies,” Middle East Studies Association Bulletin 35.1 [Summer, 2001]: 2-14.
“Continuity and Innovation in Islamic Coinage,” Bulletin of the American Research Center in Egypt [ARCE] 180 [Summer, 2001]: 22-24.
Fustat Finds [Cairo: American University of Cairo Press, 2002]
Introduction: pp. 1 – 11.
With Elizabeth Rodenbeck, “Bone, Ivory and Wood,” pp. 32 – 43.
“Primary attributor: Ayyubid coins,” p. 60 – 62.
With Elizabeth Rodenbeck, “Metal Objects,” pp. 198 – 205.
“ARCE and French Institute Collaborate on Three-Year Project,” Bulletin of the ARCE 185 [Summer 2004]: 15.
“'Reading’ Egyptian and Syrian Islamic Coinage,” Power of gold, Golds of Power: Exhibition of Gold Coins in the Yapi Kredi Collection [Istanbul: Yepi Kredi Yayainlari, 2004]: 69-77.
“Islamic Stamped Glass in the Gayer-Anderson Museum, Cairo,” Bulletin of the ARCE 187 [2005]: 17-20.
English Introduction to Jere L. Bacharach, Raafat Muhammad al-Nabarawy, Sherif Sayed Anwar and Ahmed Mohammed Yousef. A Complete Catalog [Sylloge] of the Glass Weights, Vessel Stamps & Ring Weights in the Gayer-Anderson Museum [Mathaf Bayt al-Kritiliyya], Cairo [www.amnumsoc.org] (A catalog of almost 1,100 items) 2005.
“Playing with Coins: Examples from tenth-century Egypt,” Bulletin of the ARCE 191 [2007]: 43-47.
With Sherif Sayed Anwar, Raafat Muhammad al-Nabarway, and Norman D. Nicol, “Digitalizing the Numismatic Items in the Egyptian National Library,” Bulletin of the ARCE 194 [2009]: 26-29.
“Islamic History through Coins,” Hadeeth ad-Dar: Dar al-Athar al-Islamiyya, State Kuwait. Volume 28 [2009]: 15 – 19. Expanded version translated into Arabic in Arabic section, pp. 15-19.
“Conserving Historic Cairo’s Splendid Legacy,” Preserving Egypt's Cultural Heritage Edited by Randi Danforth [Cairo: American Research Center in Egypt / Sahara Press, 2010]: 157-161.
“Baridi, al-,” E.I. 3rd [2010]: .
“Signs of Sovereignty: the shahada, Qur’anic verses, and the coinage of Abd al-Malik [65-86/685-705],” Muqarnas 27 [2010]: 1-30.
(With Sherif Anwar) “Shi’ism and the early dinars of the Fatimid Imam-caliph al-Mu’izz li-din Allah [AH 341-365 /AD 952975], al-Masaq 22 [2010]: 259-78.
“The Inscriptions on ‘Abd al-Malik’s all-epigraphic coinage” Abgadiyat [The Journal of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina] 5[2011]: 33-38.
Accepted and forthcoming:
(With Sherif Anwar) “Coinage and their Visual Messages in the Age of the Sultanate: The Case of Egypt and Syria,” [IFAO Publication].
“Tenth-Century Egyptian Coins with Human Representation,” Islamic Art
“Study on Ikhshidid – Central Asian relations ,” Journal of the Department of History, Cairo University [Accepted for a special issue in honor of Hassanein Rabie, 2009]
“Early versions of the shahada: An Aswan tombstone of 71 A.H., the Dome of the Rock, and contemporary coinage (with Sherif Anwar)” [Conference papers on the Stele of Aswan.]
“Material Evidence and Narrative Sources: Numismatic Evidence” [Conference on the Interdisciplinary Studies of the History of Islamic Societies, Ben Gurion University, 2009].
