Position:

British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow

Faculty / College Address:

Oriental Institute / Wolfson College

Email:

nefeli.papoutsakis@orinst.ox.ac.uk

Research Interests:

• Classical Arabic literature
• Islamic history and history of ideas
• Islamic theology

Current Projects:

• Self-praise in early Abbasid poetry (ca. 750-900)

Courses Taught:

• Classical Arabic poetry and prose
• Introduction to Islam
• Islamic History, 570-1300

Recent Publications:

Monographs:

• Desert Travel as a Form of Boasting: A Study of Ḏū r-Rumma’s Poetry (Arabische Studien 4), Harrassowitz: Wiesbaden 2009 (in press)
• A Concise Introduction to Islamic Literature, Museum of Islamic Art, Benaki Museum: Athens 2007 [in Greek and English – English translation: John Avgherinos]

Articles:

• “Ugly Transitions or Subtleties of the Eulogy? On a Variation of the Travel Theme in Early Arabic Poetry”, in: Studies in Honour of Penelope Stathis, Crete University Press: Rethymnon 2009 (in press)