Richard Heffron is a PhD candidate in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago working under the guidance of Professor Fred Donner. His dissertation research focuses on scholarly networks in early Islamic Syria. He has a slight obsession with Arab-Islamic biographical dictionaries, which he hopes to quell in the future by giving that rich corpus the scholarly attention it deserves.
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
7th-13th Centuries
Arabic
Historiography
Islamic Thought
Middle East/Near East Studies
Numismatics
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Indian Ocean Region
Iran
Iraq
Oman
Syria
Yemen
Specialties
• Umayyad Provincial Governance
• Arab-Islamic Hi
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
German (intermediate)
French (intermediate)
Syriac (intermediate)
Persian (elementary)
Education
MA
| 2009
| Center for Middle Eastern Studies
| University of Chicago
