Rachel Friedman

Rachel Friedman

PhD

Positions

Associate Professor (Teaching), Arabic Language and Muslim Cultures

Faculty of Arts , School of Languages, Linguistics, Literatures and Cultures

Adjunct

Faculty of Arts , Department of Classics and Religion

Contact information

Email

rachel.friedman@ucalgary.ca

Location

Office: CH D 326

Background

Educational Background

AB Arabic & Theology, Georgetown University, 2010

MA Near Eastern Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 2011

PhD Near Eastern Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 2015

Courses

Course number Course title Semester
ALMC 202 Beginners' Arabic I Fall 2022
ALMC 301 Continuing Arabic I Fall 2022
ALMC 204 Beginners' Arabic II Winter 2022
ALMC 303 Continuing Arabic II Winter 2022
ALMC 333 Intermediate Arabic II Winter 2022

Awards

  • Wayne O. McCready Emerging Fellow, Calgary Institute for the Humanities. 2022
  • Teaching Excellence Award Honourable Mention, Students' Union. 2022
  • Teaching Excellence Award, Students' Union. 2020
  • Teaching Award (emerging teacher category), Faculty of Arts. 2019

Publications

  • The Love of Religion or the Religion of Love? Revisiting the Ġazal of Ibrāhīm ibn Sahl. Revista al-Qantara. (2022)
  • Theological Echoes of Literary Controversies: Reading Abū Bakr al-Bāqillānī’s Iʿjāz al-Qurʾān Text in Light of the Debate over Badīʿ Style. Journal of Arabic Literature. 305-329. (2018)
  • Scriptural Intertextuality in the Poetry of a Late Andalusi Convert. Prooftexts. 335-354. (2018)
  • The Poetics of Devotion in ʿĀʾisha al-Bāʿūniyya’s Praise of God and Muḥammad. The Muslim World. 539-560. (2016)
  • Significant Intersections between Legal and Rhetorical Theories: Lessons from an Interdisciplinary Reading of al-Bāqillānī’s Theory of Language. The Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies. 99-123. (2016)
  • Interrogating Structural Interpretation of the Qur’ān. Der Islam. 130-156. (2012)
  • Locating the Secular in Sayyid Quṭb. Arab Studies Journal. 104-131. (2012)

More Information

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