Janet L. Abu-Lughod
| Janet Abu-Lughod | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Janet Lippman August 3, 1928 Newark, New Jersey |
| Died | December 14, 2013 (aged 85) New York City, New York |
| Nationality | USA |
| Alma mater | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| Occupation | Scholar |
| Known for | Urban Studies |
| Spouse(s) | Ibrahim Abu-Lughod m 1951, div. 1991 |
| Children | Lila, Mariam, Deena, and Jawad |
Janet Lippman Abu-Lughod (August 3, 1928 – December 14, 2013) was an American sociologist with major contributions to World-systems theory and Urban sociology.
She was married in 1951–1991 to Ibrahim Abu-Lughod. They had four children; Lila, Mariam, Deena, and Jawad.
While still at high school she was influenced by the works of Lewis Mumford about urbanization.
Janet Abu-Lughod held graduate degrees from the University of Chicago and University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her teaching career began at the University of Illinois, took her to the American University in Cairo, Smith College, and Northwestern University, where she taught for twenty years and directed several urban studies programmes. In 1987 she accepted a professorship in sociology and historical studies at the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research, from which she retired as professor emerita in 1998. She published over a hundred articles and thirteen books dealing with urban sociology, the history and dynamics of the World System, and Middle Eastern cities, including an urban history of Cairo that is still considered one of the classic works on that city: Cairo: 1001 Years of the City Victorious.
In 1976 she was awarded a John Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship for Sociology.
She was especially famous for her monograph Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250-1350 where she argued that a pre-modern world system extending across Eurasia existed in the 13th Century, prior to the formation of the modern world-system identified by Immanuel Wallerstein. In addition, she argued that the "rise of the West," beginning with the intrusion of armed Portuguese ships into the relatively peaceful trade networks of the Indian Ocean in the 16th century, was not a result of features internal to Europe, but was made possible by a collapse in the previous world system.
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