Toorawa, Shawkat M.
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- Tooraw, Shawkat M.
- Tūrāwā, Shawkat Maḥmūd
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Birth Date
- 1963-01-09
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- Email: [email protected]
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- Affiliation Start: 2016
- Organization: Yale University. Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Has Affiliation
- Affiliation Start: 2000
- Affiliation End: 2016
- Organization: Cornell University
Has Affiliation
- Affiliation Start: 1996
- Affiliation End: 2000
- Organization: University of Mauritius
Has Affiliation
- Affiliation Start: 1989
- Affiliation End: 1991
- Organization: Duke University
Descriptor
- Muslims
Birth Place
- London (England)
Associated Locale
- Durham (N.C.)
Associated Locale
- Ithaca (N.Y.)
Associated Locale
- New Haven (Conn.)
Associated Locale
- England
Associated Locale
- Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)
Associated Locale
- Port Louis (Mauritius)
Associated Language
- English
Associated Language
- Arabic
Field of Activity
Arabic literature--History and criticism
(lcsh) Morisyen literature--History and criticism
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Sources
- found: Adūnīs. A time between ashes and roses, 2004:CIP title page (Shawkat M. Toorawa)
- found: Ibn Abi Tahir Tayfur and Arabic writerly culture, 2005:CIP data sheet (Shawkat M. Toorawa; born 9 January 1963; assistant professor of Arabic literature at Cornell University)
- found: Shifāʼ al-ʻalīl, 2007:title page (Shawkat Maḥmūd Tūrāwā)
- found: Virahsawmy, Dev. Flame Tree Lane, 2012:title page (translated by Shawkat M. Toorawa) series title page (Cultural legacies / series editors, Marina Carter, Shawkat M. Toorawa)
- found: Yale University Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations website, viewed June 12, 2017(Shawkat M. Toorawa; Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations; received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. He has taught Arabic at Duke University, medieval French literature and Indian Ocean studies at the University of Mauritius, and Arabic and other literatures at Cornell University; he also worked in a family import/export company in Kuala Lumpur and Port-Louis. He joined Yale as Professor of Arabic in 2016. Scholarly interests include: classical and medieval Arabic literature, especially the literary and writerly culture of Abbasid Baghdad; the Qurʼan; Indian Ocean studies, particularly Creole literatures of Mauritius and the Mascarenes; modern poetry; translation; and SF film and literature; [email protected]) - http://nelc.yale.edu/people/shawkat-m-toorawa
- found: Wikipedia, viewed June 12, 2017(Shawkat M. Toorawa; born 1963; professor of Arabic literature at Yale University, in the Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Department; he has published extensively on classical, medieval and modern Arabic Literature, and has also published translations from Arabic. He identifies himself as a multicultural Muslim having lived in England, France, Hong Kong, Singapore, Mauritius and the U.S. Born in London, England, to Mauritian parents of Indian origin. He taught at Duke University from 1989 to 1991, and at the University of Mauritius from 1996 to 2000. He taught at Cornell University from 2000 to 2016)
- found: Ibn Faḍlān, Aḥmad. Kitāb ilá malik al-Ṣaqālibah. English. Mission to the Volga, 2017:ECIP title page (Shawkat M. Tooraw [sic?]) book title page (Shawkat M. Toorawa, volume editor [in the series Library of Arabic literature])
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Change Notes
- 2004-09-07: new
- 2023-01-28: revised
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