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Nizar F. Hermes
University of Virginia
Occupation
Associate Professor
Contact

VA
United States
Discipline
Literature
Sub Areas
Arab Studies
Comparative
Maghreb Studies
Andalusi Studies
Mediterranean Studies
Islamic Thought
Geographic Areas of Interest
Mediterranean Countries
Specialties
Classical And Modern Arabic Literature And Culture
Comparative Literature
Orientalism/Occidentalism
Education
PhD | 2009 | Comparative Literature | University of Toronto
Abstracts
Recalling al-Andalus in Early Modern Moroccan Diplomatic Writing: al-Ghassānī’s Riḥlat al-wazīr fī iftikāk al-ʾasīr (1690-1691) as a Case Study “It Eclipsed Cairo and Outshone Baghdād:” Ibn Rashīq’s Forgotten City-Elegy for Qayrawān When a Poet’s Heart Burns for a Burned City: Ibn Sharaf al- Qayraw?n?’s Elegy for Qayrawan Bakr Ibn Ḥammād al-Tāhartī: A Peripatetic Maghribi Poet in Different Wor(l)ds “You Killed Him O’ Bakr!”: Bakr Ibn Ḥammād al-Tāhartī’s Poetic Jousting and Disputations in al-Muʿtaṣim’ Court