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Allison Kanner-Botan
University of Chicago
Occupation
Graduate Student (Doctoral)
Contact
5120 South Harper Ave
Apt B5
Chicago IL 60615
United States
Discipline
Religious Studies/Theology
Sub Areas
7th-13th Centuries
Gender/Women's Studies
Islamic Studies
Persian
Geographic Areas of Interest
Anatolia
Iran
Specialties
Romance Literature
Sufism
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
Persian (advanced)
Turkish (intermediate)
French (intermediate)
Education
MA | 2016 | Religious Studies | The University of Chicago
BA | 2013 | History, Religious Studies | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Abstracts
Amongst the Animals: Depictions of Majnun from the Kitab al-Aghani and Nizami’s Layli o Majnun Women of Paradise: Houris of the Qur’an and Early Islamicate Romance Letters from Layla: Reading ‘Ishq as Active Engagement