Occupation
Associate Professor
Contact
Secondary Phone: (734) 764-1401
Fax: (734) 936-2679
Department of Near Eastern Studies
University of Michigan, STB Suite 4111
202 S. Thayer St.
Ann Arbor
MI
48104
United States
ABOUT
Prof. Samer Ali teaches undergraduate and graduate students at the U of Michigan. He conducts research on medieval Arabo-Islamic literature and culture, particularly Abbasid and Andalusian culture, and authored _Arabic Literary Salons in the Islamic Middle Ages_ (Notre Dame). He also contributes to the field of Islamic studies with counter-narratives such as "Early Islam -- Henotheism or Monotheism? A View from the Court" (J of Arabic Literature) and teaches U of M's Islamic Law, focusing not only on theory (usul), but much-neglected social practice. -- His research has earned seven awards from the American Institute of Maghreb Studies, The Institute for Advanced Studies in Berlin, Fulbright-IIE, and Fulbright-Hays.
Discipline
Literature
Sub Areas
Arabic
Comparative
Folklore/Folklife
Islamic Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Iraq
Spain
Egypt
Mediterranean Countries
Specialties
Early Islamic Kinship
Med Poetry, Lit, Lore, Mythology
Literary Salons And Public Spaces In Society
Languages
Arabic (native)
French (intermediate)
German (intermediate)
Hebrew (elementary)
Persian (elementary)
Education
PhD
| 2002
| NELC
| Indiana U
MA
| 1997
| Middle East Center
| University of Utah
BA
| 1990
| Psychology
| University of Chicago
Abstracts
The Arabo-Islamic Public Sphere: A Cultural Memory of Private Self-Interest
Wine Satire in the Medieval Islamic Public Sphere: New Money Ahsabis and the Politics and Poetics of the Bacchic
Why Does Shahrazad Succeed?: Disrupting the Scapegoat Cycle with Cold Hard Cachet
Classical Arabic Adab: A Performance Approach
Present Everywhere Visible Nowhere: Linguistic Revolution in Early Arabo-Islamic Culture and the Question of Ontology
