Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
Dept. of Comparative Literature
Marston Hall
20 Manning Walk
Providence
RI
02912
United States
ABOUT
Elias Muhanna is the Manning Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Brown University, where he teaches courses on classical Arabic literature and Islamic intellectual history.
Discipline
Literature
Sub Areas
13th-18th Centuries
Islamic Thought
Mamluk Studies
Middle East/Near East Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Egypt
Islamic World
Mashreq
Specialties
Medieval Encyclopaedias
Mamluk Literature
Vernacular Literature
Languages
Arabic (native)
French (advanced)
German (intermediate)
Persian (intermediate)
Education
PhD
| 2012
| Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations
| Harvard University
MA
| 2008
| Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations
| Harvard University
MA
| 2004
| Comparative Literature
| University of Pennsylvania
BA
| 2000
| Linguistics
| Duke University
Abstracts
Eighteen Words for Snow and Everything Else: Eloquence and Encyclopaedism in the Mamluk Period
Proofreading the Nahda: The Role of Editors in Shaping a New Arabic Literature
