Associate Professor of Arabic Literature and Islamic Studies
Shawkat M. Toorawa received his B.A., A.M., and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. His interests are classical and medieval Arabic literature, modern Arabic poetry, the Qur'an, and the Indian Ocean. He is the author of Ibn Abi Tahir Tayfur and Arabic Writerly Culture: A ninth-century bookman in Baghdad (RoutledgeCurzon, 2005). He is at present preparing a book on the Qur'an's literary imaginary, and a critical edition of an 18th-century Arabic text from India. He has translated Adonis's A Time Between Ashes and Roses: Poems (Syracuse, 2004), and edited The Western Indian Ocean: Essays on islands and islanders (HTT, 2007). His anthology, The City that Never Sleeps: Poems of New York is forthcoming (SUNY, 2014). He is a Mellon Foundation New Directions Fellow; and an executive editor of the Library of Arabic Literature, an initiative to edit and translate the premodern Arabic literary heritage.
Contact: (607) 255-1330
smt24@cornell.edu
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