Toorawa, Shawkat M.
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Name (Latin)
Toorawa, Shawkat M.
Name (Arabic)
توراوا، شوكت م.، 1963-
Other forms of name
Tooraw, Shawkat M
Tūrāwā, Shawkat Maḥmūd
Date of birth
1963-01-09
Associated country
Great Britain
Field of activity
Arabic literature--History and criticism
Morisyen literature--History and criticism
Occupation
arabic teachers of
Arabic teachers
College teachers
Literature teachers
Translators
Associated Language
engara
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Sources of Information
- Adūnīs. A time between ashes and roses, 2004:CIP title page (Shawkat M. Toorawa)
- Ibn Abi Tahir Tayfur and Arabic writerly culture, 2005:CIP data sheet (Shawkat M. Toorawa; born 9 January 1963; assistant professor of Arabic literature at Cornell University)
- Ibn Faḍlān, Aḥmad. Kitāb ilá malik al-Ṣaqālibah. English. Mission to the Volga, 2017:ECIP title page (Shawkat M. Tooraw [sic?]) book title page (Shawkat M. Toorawa, volume editor [in the series Library of Arabic literature])
- Shifāʼ al-ʻalīl, 2007:title page (Shawkat Maḥmūd Tūrāwā)
- Virahsawmy, Dev. Flame Tree Lane, 2012:title page (translated by Shawkat M. Toorawa) series title page (Cultural legacies / series editors, Marina Carter, Shawkat M. Toorawa)
- Wikipedia, viewed June 12, 2017(Shawkat M. Toorawa; born 1963; professor of Arabic literature at Yale University, in the Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Department; he has published extensively on classical, medieval and modern Arabic Literature, and has also published translations from Arabic. He identifies himself as a multicultural Muslim having lived in England, France, Hong Kong, Singapore, Mauritius and the U.S. Born in London, England, to Mauritian parents of Indian origin. He taught at Duke University from 1989 to 1991, and at the University of Mauritius from 1996 to 2000. He taught at Cornell University from 2000 to 2016)
- Shawkat M. Toorawa; Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations; received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. He has taught Arabic at Duke University, medieval French literature and Indian Ocean studies at the University of Mauritius, and Arabic and other literatures at Cornell University; he also worked in a family import/export company in Kuala Lumpur and Port-Louis. He joined Yale as Professor of Arabic in 2016. Scholarly interests include: classical and medieval Arabic literature, especially the literary and writerly culture of Abbasid Baghdad; the Qurʼan; Indian Ocean studies, particularly Creole literatures of Mauritius and the Mascarenes; modern poetry; translation; and SF film and literature; [email protected] ( (Yale University Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations website, viewed June 12, 2017) )
- Adūnīs. A time between ashes and roses, 2004:CIP t.p. (Shawkat M. Toorawa)
- Ibn Abi Tahir Tayfur and Arabic writerly culture, 2005:CIP data sheet (Shawkat M. Toorawa; b. 9 Jan. 1963; asst. prof. of Arabic literature at Cornell Univ.)