Tahera Qutbuddin is Professor of Arabic Literature and Islamic Studies at the University of Chicago. She researches classical Arabic poetry, Islamic preaching, the Quran as literature, ethical sayings of the Prophet Muhammad, and Shi’i doctrine, history, and literature. Her most recent book is Arabic Oration: Art and Function (Brill, 2019), and in 2020 she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to support her project to edit and translate a compilation of Ali’s sermons called Path of Eloquence (Nahj al-balaghah), as well as a scholarly book on Ali’s religio-political career. Qutbuddin serves as consulting editor of New York University Press’s Library of Arabic Literature series, and Brill’s Shii Islam: Texts and Studies series; also as a director of the Qutbi Jubilee Scholarship Program in Mumbai, and of its interfaith harmony conference series, Taqreeb. She holds a BA and Tamhidi Magister from Ain Shams University in Cairo, and an MA and PhD from Harvard University.
