Position:
Associate Faculty Member
Email:
Jonathan.lawrence@ames.ox.ac.uk
Research Interests:
gender, sexuality, emotions, literary reception, Cairo Sultanate, biography, Sufism, ethics, morality
Current Projects:
Emotional Morality in the Cairo Sultanate
Courses Taught:
Arabic Literature, Islamic Culture, Same Sex Desire in Arabic Literature: Texts and Theories, Muslims and Others in Abbasid-Era Storytelling, Arabic Literary Biography
Recent Publications:
- “It’s All Just Poetry: Writing ʿUmar ibn Abī Rabīʿah’s Life” in Journal of Arabic Literature 52:3–4 (2021), 321–50
- “Colonial South America, Identity and Race as Seen by a Chaldean Priest from Baghdad” in CompLit: Journal of European Literature, Arts and Society 2 (2021), 115–43
- “Building a Library: The Arabic and Persian Manuscript Collection of Sir William Jones” in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 31:1 (2021), 1–70
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- Runner-up for the Royal Asiatic Society’s David Morgan Prize 2022
