Join us on Sunday, July 27th, at 2pm EST for an informative discussion with Dr. Tahera Qutbuddin, on her latest publication, her career journey, and what led her to the work of Imam ‘Ali.
This instalment in our series ‘The Insight Interviews’, promises to be an engaging conversation.
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Since July 2023, Dr. Qutbuddin is the AlBabtain Laudian Professor of Arabic in the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Oxford, and a Professorial Fellow of St John’s College.
Originally from Mumbai, Dr. Qutbuddin earned a BA and Tamhidi Magister from Ain Shams University, Cairo, and a PhD from Harvard. She taught briefly at Yale and the University of Utah, then for two decades at the University of Chicago.
She teaches classical Arabic literature from its oral beginnings in the 7th century to the cusp of modernity around 1800, seeing it as a direct window into the rich culture and thought of the vast medieval Arabic-speaking world.
She has been awarded by HE Sheikh Thani in the category of Arabic to English translations, for her work on the Nahj al-Balagha, in the “2024 Sheikh Hamad Award for Translation and International Understanding” winners circle.
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