Tag: Arabic

  • Nation & World

    Arriving self-sufficient, leaving prepared

    Adele Woodmansee arrived self-sufficient and leaves prepared to share her talents — from bow to biology — and grow even more.

    4 minutes
    Adele Woodmansee in front of a tree
  • Nation & World

    Speaking the language of sympathy

    Bennett Capozzi ’17, a History & Literature concentrator with a Language Citation in Arabic, will travel to Jordan to master the language he learned at Harvard.  

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Wolfhart Peter Heinrichs

    At the Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on May 5, 2015, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Wolfhart Peter Heinrichs, James Richard Jewett Professor of Arabic, was spread upon the records. Professor Heinrichs served as co-editor of the Encyclopedia of Islam, for which he himself wrote over fifty…

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Muhsin Mahdi

    At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on April 5, 2011, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Muhsin Mahdi, James Richard Jewett Professor of Arabic Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Mahdi was respected for both his scholarship in Islamic philosophy and his critical translations of The…

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Digitizing the classics

    Professor works to transform ancient Greek texts and their Arabic translations into an open-access, computerized format that could provide important insights into the development of science.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Reading the Quran in Germany

    German scholar Stefan Wild delivered the 2010 H.A.R. Gibb Arabic and Islamic Studies Lectures, sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. The first of the three talks — “The History of the Quran: Why Is There No State of the Art?” — drew a large and avid audience to Tsai Auditorium.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Language of learning

    With a culturally diverse student body and more than 80 languages and several hundred courses available for study, Harvard’s commitment is unmatched nationally.

    9 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Islamic treasures a click away

    Harvard’s libraries and museums pull together vast materials on the Web, in tandem with Islamic Studies Program.

    4 minutes