Английская Википедия:Irfan Shahîd
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Infobox person Irfan Arif Shahîd (Шаблон:Lang-ar; Nazareth, Mandatory Palestine, January 15, 1926 – Washington, D.C., November 9, 2016),[1] born as Erfan Arif Kawar (Шаблон:Lang), was a scholar in the field of Oriental studies. He was from 1982 until his death professor emeritus at Georgetown University,[2] where he had been the Oman Professor of Arabic and Islamic Literature. Shahîd was also a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America since 2012.[3]
Biography
Erfan Arif was born in Nazareth, Mandatory Palestine to a Palestinian Christian family. He left in 1946 to attend St John's College, Oxford, where he read classics and Greco-Roman history. He studied under renowned antiquities historian A. N. Sherwin-White.[2]
He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in Arabic and Islamic Studies. His doctorate thesis was “Early Islam and Poetry.” Shahîd'Erfan's research was primarily focused on three major areas: the area where the Greco-Roman world, especially the Byzantine Empire, meets the Arabic and Islamic worlds in the late antique and medieval times, Islamic studies, particularly the Quran and Arabic literature, especially classical and medieval Arabic poetry.[4] In 2012 Irfan Shahîd became a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America.[5]
Selected works
- Byzantium and the Arabs in the Sixth Century, Volume 1, part 1, 1995
- Byzantium and the Arabs in the Sixth Century, Volume 1, part 2, 1995
- Byzantium and the Arabs in the Sixth Century, Volume 2, Part 1, 2002
- Byzantium and the Arabs in the Sixth Century, Volume 2, Part 2, 2010
- Byzantium and the Semitic Orient Before the Rise of Islam (Collected Studies Series: No.Cs270), 1988
- Omar Khayyám, the Philosopher-Poet of Medieval Islam, 1982
- Шаблон:Cite book
References
External links
- As enacted, S. 1483 is Private Law 536, 84th Congress (70 Stat. A18). "59 - Statement by the President Upon Signing Bill for the Relief of Irfan Kawar." Шаблон:Webarchive, The American Presidency Project, Washington DC, 19 March 1956. Retrieved on 22 August 2015.
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- Palestinian Christians
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- Scholars of Byzantine history
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