Khaled El-Rouayheb is Assistant Professor of Islamic Intellectual History at the Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations at Harvard University. His current research is on the history of Arabic logic between 1200 and1800. He is also interested more broadly in the intellectual life of this “post-classical” period of Arabic-Islamic civilisation. He holds a BA in Philosophy from the University of Copenhagen (Denmark), a MA in Middle Eastern History from the American University of Beirut (Lebanon), and a PhD (2003) in Oriental Studies from the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom). From 2003 to 2006 he was a British Academy Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge. His publications include a monograph: Before Homosexuality in the Arab-Islamic World, 1500-1800 (University of Chicago Press, 2005), and a number of articles: “Sunni Islamic Scholars on the Status of Logic, 1500-1800“, Islamic Law & Society (2004); “Was There a Revival of Logical Studies in Eighteenth-Century Egypt?“ Die Welt des Islams (2005); “Opening the Gate of Verification: The Forgotten Arab-Islamic Florescence of the Seventeenth Century“, International Journal of Middle East Studies (2006).
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