L. Carl Brown is an emeritus professor of history at Princeton University

Princeton University

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. He taught at Princeton from 1966 to 1993, specializing in the Near East

Near East

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 and the Arab world. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship

Guggenheim Fellowship

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 in 1973. He has authored and edited numerous scholarly publications, and won the 2005 Arkansas Arabic Translation Award

Arkansas Arabic Translation Award

The Arkansas Arabic Translation Award is a prize given for a notable English translation of a book-length literary work originally written in the Arabic language. The award is administered by the King Fahd Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies at the University of Arkansas...

 for his translation of the muqaddima or introduction to a work of history by Ahmad ibn Abi Diyaf

Ahmad ibn Abi Diyaf

Ahmad ibn Abi Diyaf , known colloquially as Bin Diyaf, was the author of a chronicle of Tunisian history; he was also a long-time and trusted official in the Beylical government of Tunisia...

, the 19th-century Tunisian bureaucrat and reformer.

Selected works

• Tunisia: The Politics of Modernization (co-author; 1964)
• State and Society in Independent North Africa (editor; 1966)
• The Surest Path — The Political Treatise of a Nineteenth-Century Muslim Statesman (translator, with commentary; 1967)
• From Madina to Metropolis: Heritage and Change in the Near Eastern City (editor; 1973)
• The Tunisia of Ahmad Bey (author; 1975)
• Psychological Dimensions of Near Eastern Studies (co-editor; 1977)
• International Politics in the Middle East: Old Rules, Dangerous Game (author; 1984)
• Centerstage: American Diplomacy Since World War II (editor; 1990)
• The Modernization of the Ottoman Empire and Its Afro-Asian Successors (co-editor; 1992)
• Imperial Legacy: The Ottoman Imprint on the Balkans and the Middle East (editor; 1996)
• Franco-Arab Encounters (co-editor; 1996)
• Religion and State: The Muslim Approach to Politics (author; 2000)
• Diplomacy in the Middle East: The International Relations of Regional and Outside Powers (editor; 2001, revised edition 2004)
• Consult Them in the Matter: A Nineteenth-Century Islamic Argument for Constitutional Government (translator, with commentary; 2005)

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