HIST Seminar: Dimitri Gutas (Yale University)
Dimitri Gutas, one of the world’s foremost scholars in the
field of Arabic and Islamic Studies, will be visiting
between 16-25 November.
He will be giving two talks, one in the form of a campus
(FASS) seminar for graduate students and interested faculty members, and the
other as a public lecture for invited guests from the academic community and
other walks of life.
Prof. Gutas has tentatively set “Arabic and Islamic Studies
in Western Academia Today” as his seminar topic and “The Arabic-Islamic
Background of Western Philosophy and Science” as the title of his public
lecture.
The seminar is scheduled for 4 pm on Tuesday, 17th November, at FASS G022.
The time and venue for the public lecture will be announced separately.
Born in
grew up and went to school in
1950s and 60s, graduating from
did his BA (1969), MA (1969) and PhD (1974) at
Since 1989 he has been Professor of Arabic and Graeco-Arabic at Yale’s
Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations.
Some of Prof. Gutas’s numerous books and articles have also
been translated and published in
This will be Dimitri Gutas’s first visit to
and
since he left to attend Yale in Fall 1966.