#  Khaled El-Rouayheb 

James Richard Jewett Professor of Islamic Intellectual History, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Chair, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

 

 

 



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Khaled El-Rouayheb’s research interests include: the intellectual and cultural history of the Arabic-Islamic world in the Mamluk and early-Ottoman periods (1200-1800); the history of Arabic logic; Islamic theology and philosophy. He holds a BA in Philosophy from the University of Copenhagen (Denmark), a MA in Middle Eastern History from the American University of Beirut (Lebanon), and a PhD (2003) from the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Cambridge (United Kingdom).

  
His publications include three monographs: *Before Homosexuality in the Arabic-Islamic World, 1500-1800* (University of Chicago Press, 2005), *Relational Syllogisms &amp; the History of Arabic Logic, 900-1900* (Brill, 2010), and *Islamic Intellectual History in the Seventeenth Century* (Cambridge University Press, 2015). He has also prepared an edition of *Kashf al-asrar ‘an ghawamid al-afkar, a summa of logic by Afdal al-Din al-Khunaji* (d.1248) (Iranian Institute for Philosophy, 2010). He is the co-editor (along with Sabine Schmidtke of the Institute of Advanced Studies, Princeton) of *The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Philosophy* (2016).



 

 

 





 

 

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