Rama Alhabian

“The measure of your [thinking] is to me unknown:” Aḥmad Fāris al-Shidyāq’s Comparative Epistemology in “Maqāmah on Chapter Thirteen”

Aḥmad Fāris al-Shidyāq (1804/5–1887) was an unusual Arab renaissance figure whose work spanned travel and fictional writing, Bible criticism and translations, Arabic lexicography, poetry, philology, and grammar. His intellectual and professional life involved working with several...