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
Spring 2025
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ARAB-426 Arabic Topics: Intellect & Soc in Arab World
Scholarly, Creative & Professional Activities
Selected Publications
Books
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Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals
On Wine and 幛櫻梭贖餃堯硃轍: Questions of Literary Influence and Creativity in the Plagiarism Dispute between al-Sar蘋 al-Raff尨 and the Khlid蘋 Brothers. Journal of Abbasid Studies11, 1 (2024): 44-71.
An Outline of a Plagiarism Controversy from the Abbasid Era: Al-Sar蘋 l-Raff尨 vs. the Khlid蘋 Brothers.Journal of Arabic Literature 54, 1-2 (2023): 51-72.
Authorship and Unity of the Classical Arabic Poem through the Lens of Collaborative Composition. Arabica 67, 1 (2020): 1-59.
Collaborative Composition of Classical Arabic Poetry. Arabica 65, 1-2 (2018): 163-206.
Maimonides and the Habitus Concept. Journal of the American Oriental Society 137, 3 (2017): 537-542.
Nurture over Nature: Habitus from al-Frb蘋 through Ibn Khald贖n to 尪Abduh. Journal of the American Oriental Society 137, 1 (2017): 1-24.
Eating Figs and Pomegranates: Taboos and Language in the Thousand and One Nights. Journal of Arabic Literature 44, 3 (2013): 335-370.
Women Who Cough and Men Who Hunt: Taboo and Euphemism (域勳紳櫻聆硃) in the Medieval Islamic World. Journal of the American Oriental Society 133, 3 (2013): 467-493.
Sariqa in Practice: The Case of al-廜〢廎可b Ibn 尪Abbd. Middle Eastern Literatures 14, 3 (2011): 271-285.
Book Reviews
Review of The Arabian Nightsin Contemporary World Cultures: Global Commodification, Translation, and the Culture Industry, by Muhsin J. Al-Musawi (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021), Al-Markaz: Journal of Arabic Studies 3, 1 (2024), 170-176.
Review of Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed: A Philosophical Guide, by Alfred L. Ivry (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016), Journal of the American 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 American Oriental Society 131, 4 (2011), 643-646.