Teaching Arabic Sources in Translation (A Roundtable)

Sponsoring Organization(s)

TEAMS (The Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle Ages)

Organizer Name

Sally Hany Abed, Doaa Omran, Thomas A. Goodmann

Organizer Affiliation

Univ. of Utah, Univ. of New Mexico, Univ. of Miami

Presider Name

Sahar Ishtiaque Ullah

Presider Affiliation

Columbia Univ.

Paper Title 1

Teaching the Quran in the Ancient World Literature Class

Presenter 1 Name

Doaa Omran

Paper Title 2

Teaching Averroes's "Decisive Treatise" in a Freshman Sequence

Presenter 2 Name

Coeli Fitzpatrick

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Grand Valley State Univ.

Paper Title 3

Teaching Tales of the Marvelous in the Writing Classroom: A Rhetorical Approach

Presenter 3 Name

Maha Baddar

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Pima Community College

Paper Title 4

Teaching the Arabian Nights: A Living Tradition

Presenter 4 Name

Sally Hany Abed

Paper Title 5

Muslim Travelers and Muslim Migrants: Ibn Battuta's World Today

Presenter 5 Name

Margaret Aziza Pappano

Presenter 5 Affiliation

Queen's Univ. Kingston

Paper Title 6

Teaching Arabic/Islamic Philosophy: Using Arabic-English and Latin-English Translations to Put Another Nail in the Coffin of "Orientalism"

Presenter 6 Name

Richard C. Taylor

Presenter 6 Affiliation

Marquette Univ.

Start Date

12-5-2016 1:30 PM

Session Location

Sangren 1730

Description

A six-member roundtable addressing how and why to teach medieval Arabic and Islamic literary and philosophical sources in undergraduate courses.

Thomas A. Goodmann