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Irfan Shahîd is a Palestinian historian and professor of Islamic history at Georgetown University. He is best known for his work on the history of the Middle East and the Islamic world. He is the author of several books, including The Martyrs of Karbala: Shi'i Symbols and Rituals in Modern Iran (Oxford University Press, 2001) and The Islamic World: From Classical to Modern Times (Princeton University Press, 2009). Shahîd was born in Nazareth, Mandatory Palestine, in 1926. He received his B.A. from the American University of Beirut in 1950 and his Ph.D. from the University of London in 1957. He taught at the American University of Beirut from 1957 to 1967, and then at Georgetown University from 1967 to his retirement in 1996. Shahîd has received numerous awards and honors, including the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (1996), the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1998), and the Order of Merit of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan (1999). He was also awarded the King Faisal International Prize for Islamic Studies in 2001.

Popular As Erfan Arif
Occupation Professor
Age 90 years old
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Born 15 January, 1926
Birthday 15 January
Birthplace Nazareth, Mandatory Palestine
Date of death November 9, 2016(2016-11-09) (aged 90) (2016-11-09) Washington, D.C., U.S
Died Place Washington, D.C., U.S
Nationality United States

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2012

He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in Arabic and Islamic Studies. His doctorate thesis was “Early Islam and Poetry.” Shahîd'Erfan's research was primarily focused on three major areas: the area where the Greco-Roman world, especially the Byzantine Empire, meets the Arabic and Islamic worlds in the late antique and medieval times, Islamic studies, particularly the Quran and Arabic literature, especially classical and medieval Arabic poetry. In 2012 Irfan Shahîd became a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America.

1946

Erfan Arif was born in Nazareth, Mandatory Palestine to a Palestinian Christian family. He left in 1946 to attend St John's College, Oxford, where he read classics and Greco-Roman history. He studied under renowned antiquities historian A. N. Sherwin-White.

1926

Irfan Arif Shahîd (Arabic: عرفان عارف شهيد; Nazareth, Mandatory Palestine, January 15, 1926 – Washington, D.C., November 9, 2016), born as Erfan Arif Qa'war (عرفان عارف قعوار), was a scholar in the field of Oriental studies. He was from 1982 until his death professor emeritus at Georgetown University, where he had been the Oman Professor of Arabic and Islamic Literature. Shahîd was also a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America since 2012.