Erez Naaman Associate Professor World Languages and Cultures
- Degrees
- PhD, Arabic and Islamic Studies, Harvard University
MA, Arabic and Islamic Studies, Harvard University
MA, Medieval Islamic History, Tel Aviv University
BA, Arabic Language and Literature, History of the Middle East, Tel Aviv University - Bio
- Erez Naaman specializes in classical Arabic literature and culture. In addition, his research interests include the intellectual history of the premodern Islamic world. His scholarly work has focused primarily on the institution of the court as the key site of literary production, performance, and evaluation in medieval Islamic civilization; legitimate and illegitimate literary borrowing and the ways in which they were practiced and treated; taboos, euphemisms, and language censorship; the naturalization of the Aristotelian habitus concept in the Islamic world and its long trajectory from the ninth to the nineteenth century; and collaborative composition of classical Arabic poetry. His courses include Introduction to Classical Arabic Literature, Modern Arabic Literature, Intellectuals and Society in the Arab World, and The Arabian Nights.
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Teaching
Fall 2024
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ARAB-302 Advanced Arabic I
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ARAB-426 Arabic Topics: Modern Arabic Literature
Scholarly, Creative & Professional Activities
Selected Publications
Books
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Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals
鈥溙Journal of Arabic Literature 54, 1-2 (2023): 51-72.
鈥淎uthorship and Unity of the Classical Arabic Poem through the Lens of Collaborative Composition.鈥 Arabica 67, 1 (2020): 1-59.
鈥淐ollaborative Composition of Classical Arabic Poetry.鈥 Arabica 65, 1-2 (2018): 163-206.
鈥淢aimonides and the Habitus Concept.鈥 Journal of the 麻豆果冻传媒 Oriental Society 137, 3 (2017): 537-542. 听
鈥淣urture over Nature: Habitus from al-F膩r膩b墨 through Ibn Khald奴n to 士Abduh.鈥 Journal of the 麻豆果冻传媒 Oriental Society 137, 1 (2017): 1-24.
鈥淓ating Figs and Pomegranates: Taboos and Language in the Thousand and One Nights.鈥 Journal of Arabic Literature 44, 3 (2013): 335-370.
鈥淲omen Who Cough and Men Who Hunt: Taboo and Euphemism (办颈苍腻测补) in the Medieval Islamic World.鈥 Journal of the 麻豆果冻传媒 Oriental Society 133, 3 (2013): 467-493.
鈥Sariqa in Practice: The Case of al-峁⒛佱弗ib Ibn 士Abb膩d.鈥 Middle Eastern Literatures 14, 3 (2011): 271-285.
Book Reviews
Review of Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed: A Philosophical Guide, by Alfred L. Ivry (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016), Journal of the 麻豆果冻传媒 Oriental Society 139, 1 (2019), 243-247.
Review of Like Joseph in Beauty: Yemeni Vernacular Poetry and Arab-Jewish Symbiosis, by Mark S. Wagner (Leiden: Brill, 2009), Journal of the 麻豆果冻传媒 Oriental Society 131, 4 (2011), 643-646.