Date/Time
Date(s) - 08/03/2023
2:00 pm - 3:15 pm

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Hall of Philosophy

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• Lecture

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19.00 USD
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https://www.chq.org/event/sarah-r-bin-tyeer/
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Chautauqua Institution

Chautauqua, NY

Sarah R. bin Tyeer is currently an assistant professor of Arabic literature at the department of Middle East, South Asian and African Studies at Columbia University, where she is also an affiliate faculty at the Middle East Institute, Institute of Comparative Literature and Society, and the Medieval & Renaissance Studies Program. She joins the Chautauqua Lecture Series in the week on “Literature and Meaning-Making” with a discussion on how classical texts can expand our moral imagination, and what the endurance of these texts can tell us today.

She is the author of the monograph The Qur’an and the Aesthetics of Premodern Arabic Prose (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), which has received numerous critical praises. She is also the co-editor of the volume Islam and New Directions in World Literature (Edinburgh University Press, 2023). Her recent publications include chapters in the volumes: Qur’an and Adab: The Shaping of Classical Literary Tradition, The Beloved in Middle East Literature: The Culture of Love and Languishing, and The City in Premodern and Modern Arabic Literature; The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Ethics, and most recently her article “Textual Traces: Historical Consciousness between Intertextuality and Filiation” in al-Markaz: Journal of Arabic Studies (Brill). Bin Tyeer’s academic research interests focus on the intersection of literature with ethics and religion.

Bin Tyeer is also the co-founder of the Adab Colloquium Series at Columbia University, a monthly webinar featuring scholars from around the world discussing premodern and early modern literary, philosophical, and spiritual works from across the Islamicate languages and literatures (Arabic, Persian, Ottoman, Urdu) and beyond.

Bin Tyeer earned a Ph.D. in Classical Arabic Studies from SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London); and an M.A. in English & Comparative Literature. She is trained in English & Comparative Literature, and Classical Arabic literature (adab).

This program is made possible by The George and Julie Follansbee Family Fund.