Ekaterina (Kate) Pukhovaia
Postdoc
- Name
- Dr. E. Pukhovaia
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2727
- e.pukhovaia@hum.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-0433-6885
Ekaterina (Kate) Pukhovaia is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoc.
More information about Ekaterina (Kate) Pukhovaia
Blogposts on Zaydi Studies (Leiden Arabic Humanities Blog)
Fields of interest
- Yemen
- Ottoman Empire
- State-building
- Shi'ism/Zaydism
Research
I am a historian of the pre-modern Middle East specializing in the early modern (14th - 18th centuries) socio-political history of the Arab world. I am interested in the comparative study of pre-modern state institutions and political elites in the Middle East as well as the history of Arabia in its regional context.
My research project, "Early Modern State Development in Yemen", questions how the state and political elites developed in Yemen in the 13th-17th centuries, and what role the first period of Ottoman rule (1538-1635) played in the transformation of regional political and social structures.
Curriculum vitae
2021-2022 – Fellow at the Polonsky Academy for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences, at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute
2015-2021 – PhD at Princeton University
Postdoc
- Faculty of Humanities
- Leiden Institute for Area Studies
- SMES APT
- Brown J.R. & Pukhovaia E. (23 June 2023), Miracles of Mary between Ethiopia and the Arabic-speaking world: how did stories about the Virgin Mary travel between the Middle East, Europe and the Horn of Africa?. Leiden Arabic Humanities Blog. Leiden (Leiden University). [blog entry].
- Hünefeld K. & Pukhovaia E. (2023), State-building, political thought, and the other in Muslim imperial peripheries: The Jerusalem Polonsky Academy at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute and the Martin Buber Society of Fellows at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 27–28 June 2022, al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā: The Journal of Middle East Medievalists 31: 220-223.
- Pukhovaia E. (2023), Sayyids, Tribal Kinship, and the Imamate in Zaydi Yemen under Imam Yaḥyā Sharaf al-Dīn (d. 965/1558), Medieval Encounters. Jewish, Christian and Muslim Culture in Confluence and Dialogue 29(5-6): 442-463.
- Pukhovaia E. (2023), Review of: Madi M. (1936), Jaḥjā b. al-Ḥusain b. al-Muʾajjad al-Jamanī’s “Anbāʾ az-Zaman fī Aḫbār al-Jaman”: Anfänge des Zaiditentums in Jemen; Textkritische Teilausgabe mit Übersetzungsprobe, Kommentar und Einführung in die historische jemenisch-zaiditische Literatur. . Studien zur Sprache, Geschichte und Kultur des islamischen Orients. Zwanglose Beihefte zu der Zeitschrift “Der Islam”. no. 9. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. Shii Studies Review 7(1-2): 413-415.
- Pukhovaia E. (3 February 2023), Early modern state development in Yemen. Leiden Islam Blog: Universiteit Leiden. [blog entry].
- Pukhovaia E. (2023), The lords of Kawkabān and the transformation of the state in Early Modern Yemen (15th–17th centuries), Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 66(3-4): 289-317.
- Universitair docent