Nuha Alshaar

Academic Degree:
PhD
Professional Category:
Associate Professor

Research Group: HPhil

Nuha Alshaar, Associate Professor, has a Phd University of Cambridge, MPhil from the same University, and an MA from SOAS. Nuha focuses on Islamic intellectual history and philosophical traditions, including ethics and political thought. She also works on ethics and religious traditions, the Qur’an and ethics, and classical literary traditions (adab). She is the author of Ethics in Islam: Friendship in the Political Thought of Abu Hayyan al-Tawhidi and his Contemporaries (Routledge 2015). With Wilfred Madelung, Carmela Baffioni, and Cyril Uy, she co-authored On God and the world: An Arabic critical edition and English translation of Epistles 49-51 (Oxford University Press, 2019). She is also the editor of The Qur’an and Adab: The Shaping of Literary Traditions in Classical Islam (Oxford University Press in Association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2017), and with Verena Klemm, she edited Sources and Approaches across Disciplines in Near Eastern Studies: Proceedings of the 24th Congress of the L Union Européenne des Arabisants et Islamisants (Leuven: Peeters, 2013). She is currently publishing a book titled Muslim Sicily: Encounters and Legacy to appear with Edinburgh University Press in December 2024. She has also contributed book chapters and Journal articles to several books and journals. She has taught at academic institutions in Europe and the Middle East, including the American University of Sharjah and the Institute of Ismaili Studies in London, and currently the University of Lisbon.

E-Mail: nalshaar@edu.ulisboa.pt

Selected Publications

Books

  1. Alshaar, N., Madelung, W., Baffioni, C., & Uy, C. (October 2019). On God and the World: An Arabic Critical Edition and English Translation of Epistles 49-51. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [ISBN-978-0198823339]
  2. Alshaar, N. (2015). Ethics in Islam: Friendship in the Political Thought of al-Tawḥīdī and His Contemporaries, London and New York: Routledge. [ISBN-13: 978-0415858519].

-Reviewed by Francesca Bellino, “In the Heart of Fourth-/Tenth-Century adab: On Some Recent Publications About Abū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī”, Quaderni di Studi Arabi Nuova serie, volume 16 (2021), Brill.

-Reviewed by Professor Eric Ormsby from McGill University, in Journal of Philosophy East and West, Volume 67, Number 2, 2017, pp. 602-605.

-Reviewed by Sara Abram, Università degli Studi di Padova, Universa. Recensioni di filosofia volume 7, n. 1 (2018), 7-11.

  1. Alshaar, Nuha and Lawrence Lahey, The Christian-Jewish Debate at Tomei (Thmuis), Egypt: An Arabic Critical Edition, English Translation, and Introductory Study, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck GmbH & Co. KG (forthcoming).

 

Edited Volumes

 

  1. Alshaar, Nuha. (Ed.) [In press, December 2024]. Muslim Sicily: Encounters & Legacy.  Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
  2. Nuha Alshaar. (Ed.). (2017). The Qur’an and Adab: The Shaping of Literary Traditions in Classical Islam. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  3. Nuha Alshaar et al (eds.). (2022). The Humanities in the 21st Century: Perspectives from the Arab World and Germany. Berlin: Dossiers Forum Transregional Studies.
  4. Alshaar, N. & Klemm, V. (Eds.) (2013). Sources and Approaches across Disciplines in Near     Eastern Studies: Proceedings of the 24th Congress of the L Union Européenne des  Arabisants et Islamisants. Leuven: Peeters.

 

Journal Articles and Book Chapters

  • Alshaar, N. (2021). ‘The Interplay of Religion and Philosophy in al-Tawḥīdī’s Political Thought and Practical Ethics,’ in Bouhafa, F, Towards New Perspectives on Ethics in Islam: Casuistry, Contingency, and Ambiguity. Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies, 21(2), 313-339.

 

Nuha Alshaar. (2023). ‘Hadith and the Concept of Adab as Moral Education.’ In Mu’taz al-Khatib (Ed.). Ḥadīth and Ethics through the Lens of Interdisciplinarity, Leiden: Brill, 30-47.

 

Nuha Alshaar, Beate La Sala, Jenny Oesterle and Barbara Winckler. (2022). ‘Introduction: The Humanities in the 21st Century Perspectives from the Arab World and Germany.’ In Alshaar et al (Eds.). The Humanities in the 21st Century: Perspectives from the Arab World and Germany, Berlin: Dossiers, Forum Transregionale Studien, 12-30.

 

Nuha Alshaar. (2022). ‘The Social and Political History of Baghdad under the Buyid Period.’ In Jens Scheiner and Isabel Toral-Niehoff (Eds.). Handbook of Baghdad, Leiden: Brill, 194-226.

Nuha Alshaar. (2022). ‘The Shᾱfi‘iyya.’ In Oliver Leaman (Ed.). Routledge Handbook of Islamic Rituals and Practices, London: Routledge, 133-142.

 

Nuha Alshaar. (2020). ‘Knowledge in the Būyid Period: Curriculum, Practices, and Formation of Social Identity.’ In Sebastian Günther (Ed.). Knowledge and Education in Classical Islam, Leiden: Brill, 668-683.

 

Nuha Alshaar. (2020). ‘Reconstructing Adab in Islamic Studies.’ In Majid Daneshgar and Aaron W. Hughes (Eds.). Deconstructing Islamic Studies, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 167-203.

Nuha Alshaar. (2017). ‘The Qur’an in Literary Anthologies: A Case Study of al-ʿIqd al-Farīd by Ibn ʿAbd Rabbih al-Andalusī (d. 328/940).’ In Alshaar, N (Ed.). The Qur’an and Adab: The Shaping of Literary Traditions in Classical Islam, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 381-400.

 

Nuha Alshaar. (2017). ‘The Relation of Adab to the Qur’an: Conceptual and Historical Framework.’ In Alshaar, N (Ed.). The Qur’an and Adab: The Shaping of Literary Traditions in Classical Islam, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1-58.

Nuha Alshaar. (2013). ‘Between Love and Social Aspiration: The Influence of Sufi and Greek Concepts of Love on the Socio-political Thought of the Ikhwan al-Safa’, Miskawayh, and al-Tawhidi.’ In Klemm, V & Alshaar, N (Eds.). Sources and Approaches across Disciplines in Near Eastern Studies: The Proceedings of the 24th Congress of the Union Européenne des Arabisants et Islamisants, Leuven: Peeters, 25-39.

 

Alshaar, N. (2012). An Islamic Approach to Moral Virtue: Fakhr al-Din al-Razi’s Treatment of Birr (Virtue) in his al-Tafsir al-Kabir.  Journal of Mélanges de l’Université Saint-Joseph, LXIV 64, 87–100.  

Nuha Alshaar. (2010). ‘An Analytical Reading of al-Tawḥīdī’s Epistle: on [The Classification of] Knowledge (Risāla fī al-‘Ulūm).’ In Bruno De Nicola, Husain Qutbuddin, and Yonatan Mendel (Eds.). Reflections on Knowledge and Language in Middle Eastern Societies, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 153-172.

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