Carl Sharif El-Tobgui

Title

Assistant Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies, and Director of the Arabic Language Program

Near Eastern and Judaic Studies

Degrees

McGill University, M.A.

Georgetown University, B.S.

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Contact

Email:	eltobgui@brandeis.edu
Phone:	781-736-2071
Office:	Lown Center for Judaica Studies, 206

Courses Taught

ARBC	10a	Beginning Literary Arabic
ARBC	20b	Continuing Literary Arabic
ARBC	30a	Intermediate Literary Arabic
ARBC	40b	Advanced Intermediate Literary Arabic
ARBC	103a	Lower Advanced Arabic
ARBC	103b	Middle Advanced Arabic: Contemporary Arab Media
ARBC	106a	Advanced Arabic I: Contemporary Arabic Literature
ARBC	106b	Advanced Arabic II: Classical Arabic & Islamic Literature
IMES	104a	Islam: Civilization and Institutions

Scholarship

El-Tobgui, Carl Sharif. "Reason, Revelation, and the Reconstitution of Rationality: Taqi al-Din Ibn Taymiyya's "Dar' ta'arud al-'aql wa-l-naql" or 'The Refutation of the Contradiction of Reason and Revelation'." Diss. Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University, successfully defended on March 12, 2013.

El-Tobgui, Carl Sharif. "The Hermeneutics of Fakhr al-Din al-Razi." Coming to Terms with the Qur’an: A volume in honor of Professor Issa Boullata, McGill University. Ed. Khaleel Mohammed & Andrew Rippin. North Haledon: Islamic Publications International, 2008. 125-158.

El-Tobgui, Carl Sharif. "The Epistemology of Qiyas and Ta‘lil between the Mu‘tazilite Abu ’l-Husayn al-Basri and Ibn Hazm al-Zahiri." UCLA Journal of Islamic and Near Eastern Law 2. ii (2003): 281-354.

Jubran Khalil Jubran. Kitab al-Mawakib ("Le livre des processions"). Trans. Carl Sharif El-Tobgui. Montreal: Commissioned by Editions Trait d'union, 2001.