So happy to have been part of the wonderful conference at UPENN in April 2022 and to see the wonderful proceedings edited by Jamal Elias with brilliant colleagues!

Graduate School of Islamic Humanities: Approaches to the Study of Islam

To be held in Leiden, Netherlands.
13-17 July 2026

Open to all PhD candidates in Islamic studies and early career scholars.

The Qur’an and the Aesthetics of Premodern Arabic Prose is now available in Arabic.
احسن القصص: القرآن و النثر العربي القديم، متوفر في معرض الكتاب بالقاهرة

I am delighted to share that my new book The Well-Tempered Reader from the @ucpress.bsky.social is out! Please use code UCPSAVE30 for a 30% discount. The book is also open access.

A new Brill edition of thirteenth century poet and wit Ibn Daniyal’s shadow plays, Tayf Al-khayal, showcasing a plethora of characters in 13th century Egypt.

Please join us with @drkeegan.bsky.social for the first Adab Colloquium of the semester with Austin O'Malley's new book and Axel Takacs on Farid al-Din ʿAttar and the poetics of spiritual instruction!

Please Join us on March 29th for a book talk with Professor Annette Damayanti Lienau as she discusses her work, "Sacred Language, Vernacular Difference: Global Arabic and Counter-Imperial Literatures," accompanied by Professor Rebecca Johnson.

Please join us next Thursday Feb 29th in a discussion of The Divine Comedy and the Formation of Modern Adab!

Please join us on Friday for our first Spring adab colloquium with Theo Beers and Matthew Keegan and yours truly for a discussion on AN ADIB AND HIS POET OF CHOICE: NASR ALLAH MUNSHI'S (FL. CA. 540/1145-6) QUOTATIONS OF SANA'I GHAZNAVI (D. CA. 525/1131)