Shii News – ‘An Exploration of the Nahj al-Balagha’ with Professor Tahera Qutbuddin
Since July 2023, Dr. Qutbuddin is the AlBabtain Laudian Professor of Arabic in the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Oxford, and a Professorial Fellow of St John’s College.
Originally from Mumbai, Dr. Qutbuddin earned a BA and Tamhidi Magister from Ain Shams University, Cairo, and a PhD from Harvard. She taught briefly at Yale and the University of Utah, then for two decades at the University of Chicago.
She teaches classical Arabic literature from its oral beginnings in the 7th century to the cusp of modernity around 1800, seeing it as a direct window into the rich culture and thought of the vast medieval Arabic-speaking world.
She has been awarded by HE Sheikh Thani in the category of Arabic to English translations, for her work on the Nahj al-Balagha, in the “2024 Sheikh Hamad Award for Translation and International Understanding” winners circle.
- July 31, 2025
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