Professor Abdelhamid Hussein Hammouda

Abdelhamid Hussein Mahmoud Hammouda was born in Faqus city, Ash Sharqiyah Governorate, Arab Republic of Egypt in 1961. He studied in the Faculty of Arts at Zagazig University, Department of History, from 1979 to 1983, then received his master’s degree in Islamic history in 1988 with excellent distinction. He completed his Ph.D. in Islamic history at the Faculty of Arts, Minia University, graduating with excellent distinction and first-class honors.

In 1989, he was appointed as a teaching assistant at the Faculty of Arts, Cairo University – Khartoum Branch, and in 1994, he moved to the Fayoum Branch of Cairo University. He held several administrative positions within the university, including Head of the History Department in both the Faculties of Education and Arts from 2003 until 2006, Vice Dean of the Faculty of Arts for Post-Graduate Studies and Research in 2009, and Dean of the Faculty of Arts from 2011 until 2018. He also supervised the Departments of English, Chinese, Libraries, and Information Systems. He served as a member on the editorial boards of several peer-reviewed academic journals. In 2009, he was selected by the university on an academic mission as a visiting researcher at S.O.A.S., University of London in the United Kingdom.

Professor Hammouda authored several encyclopedias, including The Encyclopedia of the History of Islamic States in the East, in ten volumes; The Encyclopedia of the Early Islamic Period and Its Civilization, in six volumes; and The Encyclopedia of Trade Routes in the Islamic World, in five volumes. There is a fourth encyclopedia that is currently in press. He also authored around sixteen books on various fields of Islamic history and Islamic civilization that were all published in Cairo. His books include International Relations in Islam, The History of Andalusia in the Islamic Era, The History of the Umayyad State, Entertainment and Leisure Means among Muslims from the Rise of Islam to the Late Eighth Century AH, and The Treatment of Prisoners in Islam.

He published more than 20 research papers on different aspects of Islamic history in the journals of Faculties of Arts at Egyptian universities and in the Union of Arab Historians.

In 2019, he was selected as a member of the Committee of wise Men at Fayoum University and was awarded the Encouragement Prize in scientific writing and translation from the same University in 2014. He also participated in several conferences in many countries.