Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych (born 1950) is a scholar of classical Arabic poetry and the Sultan Qaboos bin Said Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at

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Biography

Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych earned a BA in Art History from

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in 1972 and a PhD in Classical Arabic Literature from the

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in 1981. She taught Arabic literature at

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, Bloomington, from 1986 to 2013, before taking a permanent position as Sultan Qaboos bin Said Professor of Arabic and Islamic studies at

The King Faisal Foundation The King Faisal Foundation ( ar, مؤسسة الملك فيصل الخيرية; ''KFF''), is an international philanthropic organization established in 1976 with the intent of preserving and perpetuating King Faisal bin Abdulaziz's legacy. The fo ...

awarded her the 2022

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for her contributions to Arabic language and literature.

Works

* ''The Mute Immortals Speak: Pre-Islamic Poetry and the Poetics of Ritual'' * ''Abū Tammām and the Poetics of the ʿAbbāsid Age'' * ''The Poetics of Islamic Legitimacy: Myth, Gender''

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Stetkevych, Suzanne Georgetown University faculty Living people 1950 births