#  Khaled El-Rouayheb 

James Richard Jewett Professor of Arabic and Islamic Intellectual History

Ph.D. Cambridge University

 

 

 



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Khaled El-Rouayheb is an intellectual and cultural historian whose teaching and research address the development of Islamic theology and philosophy, the history of Arabic logic, and the transformation of the Arabic-Islamic world in the classical, medieval, and early modern periods. In addition to numerous articles on logic and its study in the Islamic world, he is the author of *Before Homosexuality in the Arabic-Islamic World, 1500-1800* (University of Chicago Press, 2005) and *Relational Syllogisms and the History of Arabic Logic, 900-1900* (Brill, 2010), editor of Afdal al-Din al-Khunaji's *Kashf al-asrar ‘an ghawamid al-afkar* (Iranian Institute for Philosophy, 2010), and co-editor (with Sabine Schmidtke) of the *Oxford Handbook of Islamic Philosophy* (Oxford University Press, 2016). In 2022, Prof. El-Rouayheb was named to a five-year term as Harvard College Professor.



 

 

 





 

 

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