Graduate Student, Oriental Studies
American University in Cairo, Arab and Islamic Civilizations
Balliol
Thesis Title: Mamluk and Ottoman epigram anthologies
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Prof Geert Jan van Gelder, FBA
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About
Dear All, I'm a bit wary about copyright issues so I haven't uploaded any papers here. If you'd like to know more about something I've worked on, please just get in touch by email.
--Adam
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I will join the department of Arab and Islamic Civilizations at the American University in Cairo as assistant professor of classical Arabic literature in September 2012. (provided I finish my thesis on time, that is!)
My research deals primarily with the tradition of Arabic poetry and my disciplinary bent is that of literary history. My doctoral thesis is a study of a specific innovative generic and poetic trend in the Mamluk and early Ottoman periods. My Master's thesis focussed on the place of poets from al-Hirah in the canon of pre-Islamic poetry. I am also interested in the history of what we might call classical Islamicate literatures: Arabic, Persian, Ottoman, Urdu. While my focus is fairly fixed on poetry, I am also interested in larger issues of cultural history, including sexuality, literacy and education, urbanity, social stratification, but, for the moment, I am most interested in how these issues are treated in poetry and other literary sources.
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