Birth: NULL/NULL/1926 Death:NULL/NULL/2016
Born in Nazareth on 15 Jan. 1926; was educated at the Government Arab College from 1940-46; studied Classics and Ancient History at Oxford University, UK, from 1947-51, graduating with a BA; continued his studies in the US and earned a PhD in Arabic and Islamic Studies from Princeton University in 1954; worked as Assistant Professor at the University of California in Los Angeles from 1955-60, then as Associate Professor at Indiana University from 1961-63; teaches at Georgetown University since 1963 (full professor since 1966 and Oman Professor of Arabic and Islamic Literature since 1981); is a member of the American Oriental Society since 1955; life member of the Medieval Academy of America since 1962, and of Clare Hall, Cambridge; also serves as member of the Middle East Studies Association; has widely published on Arab-Byzantine relations, The Qur’an, Islamic Studies, and Arabic poetry, incl. The Martyrs of Najran, Subsidia Hagiographica (1971), Byzantium and the Semitic Orient before the Rise of Islam (1988) and Byzantium and the Arabs in the Sixth Century (3 vols., 1995 and 2002). He passed away in 2016.
