Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University
Shuaib Ally is a SSHRC postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Islamic Studies at McGill University. He works on commentaries on the Qur’an and on works of classical Arabic rhetoric and literary theory. His PhD dissertation (University of Toronto, 2022) was about past and present anxieties over the loss of scholarly classics, specifically the work of an 11th C Persian scholar ʿAbd al-Qāhir al-Jurjānī, who wrote the most important book of classical Arabic rhetoric and literary theory. His project used paratextual evidence in extant copies of his work to trace its historical transmission and scholarly engagement with a work that has been allegedly lost.
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