Sami Zubaida
Zubaida in 2012
Born	(1937-01-01)1 January 1937 Iraq
Died	6 April 2025(2025-04-06) (aged 88) London, England
Occupation	Professor
Known for	Food studies, Political sociology, Religion, culture and politics, Sociology of Islam

Sami Zubaida (1 January 1 1937 – 6 April 2025) was an Iraqi scholar of Middle Eastern political sociology, law and culinary culture.^[1] He was born in Baghdad into an Iraqi Jewish family and in 1953, aged 16, he moved to the United Kingdom.^[2][3] He was anEmeritus Professor ofPolitics andSociology atBirkbeck, University of London and, as a Visiting Hauser Global Professor of Law in Spring 2006, taught Law and Politics in the Islamic World atNew York University School of Law. He was a regular participant at theOxford Symposium on Food and Cookery and organized a conference at the LondonSchool of Oriental and African Studies, in 1992, which focused on the culinary cultures of the Middle East. The conference papers were published in book form in 1994.

Zubaida died in London on 6 April 2025, aged 88.^[1]

• 1994 (editor, with Richard Tapper) :Culinary Cultures of the Middle East. London: I. B. Tauris.ISBN 1-85043-742-4

• Robert Irwin, "In the Caliph's Kitchen" inTimes Literary Supplement (23 December 1994) p. 10 [review ofCulinary Cultures of the Middle East]

• Zubaida's web page at U. London website

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