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Irfan Shahîd

Irfan Arif Shahîd, also known as Erfan Arif Kawar, was an American professor and scholar in the field of Oriental studies. Between 1982 and 2016, he was the Oman Professor of Arabic and Islamic Literature at Georgetown University. Shahîd also became a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America in 2012.

Biography
Shahîd was born in Nazareth, Mandatory Palestine, to a family of Palestinian Christians. He left in 1946 to attend St John's College, Oxford, where he studied classics and Greco-Roman history under the renowned British historian A. N. Sherwin-White. ==Selected works==
Selected works
Rome and the Arabs: A Prolegomenon to the Study of Byzantium and the Arabs, 1984 • Byzantium and the Arabs in The Fourth Century, 1984 • Byzantium and the Arabs in the Fifth Century, 1989 • Byzantium and the Arabs in the Sixth Century, Volume 1, part 1, 1995 • Byzantium and the Arabs in the Sixth Century, Volume 1, part 2, 1995 • Byzantium and the Arabs in the Sixth Century, Volume 2, Part 1, 2002 • Byzantium and the Arabs in the Sixth Century, Volume 2, Part 2, 2010 • Byzantium and the Semitic Orient Before the Rise of Islam (Collected Studies Series: No.Cs270), 1988 • Omar Khayyám, the Philosopher-Poet of Medieval Islam, 1982 • ==References==
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