Basheer Nafi

Basheer Musa Nafi (Arabic: بشير نافع) is Palestinian-born, living in the United Kingdom.[1] Nafi is a Professor of Middle East History and a Senior Researcher at Al Jazeera Centre for Studies.[2]

Early life

Nafi was born in the Rafah refugee camp in Gaza.[3] After the 1967 war, he moved to Jordan to live with his uncle and complete high school. In 1971, Nafi moved to Egypt to study veterinary medicine.[3] Nafi moved to the UK to undertake postgraduate study at King's College.[1]

Career

Nafi holds two PhDs, the first in microbiology from King's College, University of London (1987)[4] and the second in political history from the University of Reading (1996).[5] The second was published as a book in 1998, titled Arabism, Islamism and the Palestine Question, 1908-1941: A Political History.[6]

He taught Islamic history and Islamic studies at Birkbeck College of the University of London,[7] the Muslim College, and Markefield Institute of High Education.

Books

  • Arabism, Islamism and the Palestine Question, 1908–1941: A Political History, Ithaca Press, Reading, 1998.
  • Imperialism, Zionism and Palestinian Nationalism (in Arabic), Cairo, Dar al-Shuruq, 1999.
  • The Rise and Decline of the Arab-Islamic Reform Movement, London, ICIT Papers, 2000.
  • Islamic Thought in the Twentieth Century (co-editor; in association with S. Taji-Farouki), London, I. B. Tauris, 2004.
  • The Palestinian strategic Report: 2005 (co-editor; in association with Muhsin Salih; in English and Arabic), Beirut, al-Zaytouna Centre for Studies, 2006.
  • Iraq: Contexts of Unity and Disintegration. A Reading in Sunnism, Shi‘ism, and the Arab Identity (in Arabic), Cairo, Dar al-Shuruq, 2006.
  • The Islamists (in Arabic), Beirut, al-Dar al-‘Arabiyya, 2010.
  • On the Emergence and Triumph of Ahl al-Sunna Wal-Jama'a, 2023.

References

  1. ^ a b "In the news: Basheer Nafi". Times Higher Education (THE). 28 February 2003. Retrieved 5 September 2025.
  2. ^ https://studies.aljazeera.net/en/profile/basheer-nafi-0
  3. ^ a b Tamimi, Azzam (2007). "Palestine Question and Islamic Movement: The Ikhwan (Muslim Brotherhood) Roots of Hamas". Kyoto Bulletin of Islamic Area Studies. 1 (1): 30–51. Retrieved 6 September 2025.
  4. ^ Nafi, Basheer Musa (1987). Aspects of Growth and Carbonic Anhydrase Synthesis in Neisseria. Kings College. Retrieved 5 September 2025.
  5. ^ Nafi, Basheer Musa (1996). The politics of Arabism, Islamism and the Palestinian question 1908-1941. University of Reading. Retrieved 5 September 2025.
  6. ^ Nafi, Basheer M. (1998). Arabism, Islamism and the Palestine question, 1908-1941: a political history (1. ed.). Reading: Ithaca-Press. ISBN 9780863722356. Retrieved 5 September 2025.
  7. ^ https://www.africanbookscollective.com/authors-editors/basheer-m.-nafi
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