Tayeb El-Hibri
Professor of Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies
Office Hours:
Please schedule via email to meet with me.
Professor El-Hibri specializes in classical Arabic historiography and in medieval and modern Arabic literature. He is the author of Reinterpreting Islamic Historiography: Harun al-Rashid and the Narrative of the ‘Abbasid Caliphate (Cambridge University Press, 1999), which received the Albert Hourani Award Honorable Mention of the Middle East Studies Association of North America in 2000, and Parable and Politics in Early Islamic History: The Rashidun Caliphs (Columbia University Press, 2010). His published articles and reviews have appeared in Arabica, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Journal of Near Eastern Studies and Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, and The New Cambridge History of Islam (2008). He has also been consultant on Arabic and Islamic history for the Metropolitan Museum of Art on the exhibition, “al-Andalus: The Arts of Islamic Spain (711-1492).”
Research Areas:
Classical Arabic historiography, and medieval and modern Arabic literature.
Courses Recently Taught:
Arabic 126 Elementary Arabic I
Arabic 146 Elementary Arabic II
Arabic 226 Intermediate Arabic I
Arabic 246 Intermediate Arabic II
Arabic 326 Advanced Arabic I
Arabic 346 Advanced Arabic II