FACULTY

Dr. Maher Jarrar

Professor, Civilization Sequence Program and Arabic Department

Director, Anis Makdisi Program in Literature

 Curriculum Vitae

Research interests

Arabic Narratology, early and modern

The biography of Prophet Muhammad, Sīra

The Arabian Nights

Arabic Folk-Literature

Literature of Islamic Spain, Al-Andalus

Early Islamic Theology

Early Zaydī history and dogmas

Courses taught in the last five years

CVSP 201 through 206; designed and taught Utopian Thought I and II 

The Arabian Nights

Arabic Folk-Literature

Literature of Islamic Spain, Al-Andalus

Arabic-Islamic philosophy, freshman course