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.
