Editing Daniel Pipes (section)

===Work in academia===
Pipes returned to Harvard in 1973 and, after further studies abroad (in [[Freiburg im Breisgau|Freiburg-im-Breisgau]] and [[Cairo]]), obtained a [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D.]] in medieval Islamic history<ref name=Press/> in 1978. His doctoral dissertation eventually became his first book, ''Slave Soldiers and Islam'', in 1981. He switched his academic interest from medieval Islamic studies to modern Islam in the late 1970s, with the rise of [[Ayatollah Khomeini]] and the [[Iranian revolution]].<ref name=Press/>

He taught world history at the [[University of Chicago]] from 1978 to 1982, history at Harvard from 1983 to 1984, and policy and strategy at the [[Naval War College]] from 1984 to 1986. In 1982–83, Pipes served on the policy-planning staff at the State Department in 1982–83.<ref>Arabists: The Romance of an American Elite, Kaplan, Robert D., p. 287, Simon and Schuster, 1995</ref>