Dr. Khaled El Rouayheb

Biography

Khaled El-Rouayheb is a Professor of Islamic Intellectual History at Harvard University, affiliated with the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. His research interests encompass Arabic Philosophy, Islamic Philosophical Theology, and the history of logic. He specializes in intellectual and cultural history within the Arabic-Islamic world during the early modern period (1500-1800), including the history of Arabic logic and Islamic theology. El-Rouayheb holds a BA in Philosophy from the University of Copenhagen in Denmark, an MA in Middle Eastern History from the American University of Beirut in Lebanon, and a PhD in Oriental Studies from the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, which he obtained in 2003. He has received several accolades, including a Junior Research Fellowship from the British Academy (2003-2006), a Junior Mellon Visiting Fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (2008-2009), and a Fellowship at Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (2011-2012).

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