Lecture | Leiden Lectures on Arabic Language & Culture
Lecture by Professor Tahera Qutbuddin
- Date
- Tuesday 27 May 2025
- Time
- Explanation
- The lecture starts at 17:00 hours and is followed by a drinks reception
- Serie
- Leiden Lectures on Arabic Language and Culture
- Address
- Rijksmuseum van Oudheden
Rapenburg 28 28
Leiden - Room
- Tempelzaal
About Tahera Qutbuddin
Tahera Qutbuddin is Abdulaziz Saud AlBabtain Laudian Professor of Arabic at the University of Oxford. Her research in classical Arabic literature and Islamic studies focuses on intersections of the literary, the religious, and the political in poetry and prose. Her interests include classical Arabic poetry, orations, epistles, aphorisms, narrative, poetics, and philology; orations and sayings of Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib; ethical hadith and orations of the Prophet Muhammad; Fatimid and Tayyibi Bohra poetry, history, theology, and law; literary features and symbolic exegesis of the Quran; classical Arabic women’s literature, including orations and poetry; and the history, functions, and literary genres of Arabic in India.