Irfan Shahid

Irfan Shahid, also written Shahîd (born 1926 in Nazareth) in Arabic: عرفان شهيد, is Professor Emeritus at Georgetown University. Since 1982 he has been the Oman Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies.

Irfan Shahid was born to a Christian Arab family in Palestine. He received his B.A. from Oxford University in Classics and Graeco-Roman History and his Ph. D. from Princeton University in Arabic and Islamic Studies. He mainly published on the Arabs and the Greco-Roman world in the late antique and medieval times, classical and medieval Arabic poetry and the Koran.^[1]

On March 20, 2010 Irfan Shahid was inducted as Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America. Fellows are the most distinguished scholars of medieval studies and are elected for advancing the field.^[2]

Works

• Byzantium and the Arabs in the Sixth Century, Volume 2, Part 1, 2002
• Byzantium and the Arabs in the Sixth Century, Volume 1, 1995
• Byzantium and the Arabs in the Fifth Century, 1989
• Byzantium and the Semitic Orient Before the Rise of Islam (Collected Studies Series: No.Cs270), 1988
• Byzantium and the Arabs in the Fourth Century, 1984
• Rome and the Arabs: A Prolegomenon to the Study of Byzantium and the Arabs, 1984
• Omar Khayyam, the philosopher-poet of medieval Islam, 1982

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