Maher Jarrar

Maher Jarrar is Professor at the American University of Beirut, both at the Critical Humanities for the Liberal Arts and at the Department of Arabic.
He is honorary member of Middle East Medievalists; director of the Anis Makdisi Program in Literature, and former director of AUB’s Center for Arts and Humanities 2012-2016, and he served as chairperson of the Civilization Studies Program from 2004 to 2007, and 2011 to 2014. He received his PhD in Arabic and Islamic Studies from Tübingen University in 1989. He was Visiting Professor at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard (1996 and 2011) and Fellow at the Arbeits kreises Moderne und Islam at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (2002-03). His areas of interest include the biography of the Prophet Muhammad, Zaydi Studies, early and modern Arabic narratology, The Arabian Nights, and the literature of Islamic Spain, al-Andalus. He published numerous books and over 40 articles in the field of Islamic studies, Arabic literature, and literary criticism in academic journals, encyclopedias and chapters in books.