Occupation
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Contact
ABOUT
Chris PreJean is a Ph.D. student in Arabic in the department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at the University of California Los Angeles. He joined the department in 2014, when he was awarded the Andrew W. Mellon four-year research fellowship to study Arabic. He is a teaching associate and a fifth year student studying with Michael Cooperson. His main interest is in Christianity in the Middle East, with an emphasis on Arabic Christian communities living under Islamic rule in the 9th century C.E. His work primarily focuses on the relationships between Christians and Hanbali Muslims in Baghdad. He is currently working on his dissertation project advised by Michael Cooperson (Arabic, UCLA), Michael Morony (History, UCLA), Luke Yarbrough (Islamic Studies, UCLA), Alexandre Roberts (Classica, USC), and Jeffrey Guhin (Sociology, UCLA).
Discipline
Law
Sub Areas
7th-13th Centuries
Arabic
Christian Studies
Islamic Studies
Translation
Geographic Areas of Interest
Iraq
All Middle East
Mediterranean Countries
Specialties
Jewish-Christian-Muslim Relations
Arabic
Islamic Law
Education
Abstracts
Enslaved to Freedom: Forced Freedom in Iraq from 8th through the 10th century C.E.
