College of Arts and Sciences Department of Arabic and Translation Studies

The faculty members at the Department of Arabic and Translation Studies include among their number many researchers of international stature, investigating the varied dimensions of Arabic literature and Arab culture, Arabic translation and intercultural studies, Arabic linguistics, and Islamic studies.

Nuha Alshaar
Teaching areas

• Classical Arabic Literature and Thought

Research areas

• The intellectual history of the formation of adab (classical Arabic literature) and its relations to the Qur’an, kalam and philosophy; ethics in Muslim traditions; Qur’anic exegesis; modern Islamic movements; contemporary readings of the Qur’an

Publications

• The Qur’an and Adab: The Shaping of Literary Traditions in Classical Islam. Edited by Nuha Alshaar. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017.
• "The Qur’an in Literary Anthologies: A Case Study of al-ʿIqd al-Farīd by Ibn ʿAbd Rabbih al-Andalusī (d. 328/940)." In The Qur’an and Adab: The Shaping of Literary Traditions in Classical Islam, edited by Nuha Alshaar, 381-400. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017.
• "Introductory Chapter: The Relation of Adab to the Qur’an: Conceptual and Historical Framework." In The Qur’an and Adab: The Shaping of Literary Traditions in Classical Islam, edited by Nuha Alshaar, 1-58. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017.

Said Faiq
Teaching areas

• Cultural/Intercultural Communication/Studies.  Translation and Interpreting theory and practice  Communication and media  Research and academic writing, writing for business (business communication), and Public Speaking skills and convention

Research areas

• Intercultural communication and encounters • Translatology • Discourse/text studies • Communication and media studies • Glocalization • Higher Education

Publications

• "Neither Morpheme nor Transleme …Revisiting the Unit of Translation, Semiotically." AWEJ for translation & Literary Studies (Awej-tls) 1, no. 1 (2017): 144-57
• "Imitation, Representation … or the Master Discourse of Translation." In Culture(s) and Authenticity: The Politics of Translation and the Poetics of Imitation, edited by A. Pantuchowicz & A. Warso, 000-000. Bern, New York, Oxford, Warsaw: Peter Lang, 2017.
• "Through the Master Discourse of Translation." In New Insights into Arabic Translation and Interpreting, edited by M. Taibi, 7-21. Bristol, Buffalo, Toronto: Multilingual Matters, 2016.
• "The Turn of Translating (into) Arabic." In New Insights into Arabic Translation and Interpreting, edited by M. Taibi, 177-181. Bristol, Buffalo, Toronto: Multilingual Matters, 2016.

Imed Nisri
Teaching areas

• Arabic Heritage and Music History

Research areas

• Arabic Heritage Literature Music, Poetry, Comparative literature

Gavin Picken
Publications

• "Ijtihad, Ikhtilaf and the Evolution of a Legal Genre." Encounters: An International Journal for the Study of Culture and Society 1, no. 6 (2015): 65-93.
• "The concept of sunna in the early Shafi’i madhhab." In The Sunna and Status in Islamic Law: The Search for a Sound Hadith, edited by Adis Duderija, 139-62. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillian, 2015.
• "The “greater” jihad in classical Islam: the Sufi concept of combating the soul." In Twenty First Century Jihad: Law, Society and Military Action, edited by Elizabeth Kendall, and Ewan Stein, 126-38. London: I B Taurus, 2015.