Russell Hopley

Lecturer in Arabic

Phone 798-4320
Title Lecturer in Arabic
Department Religion
Work Location 31 Ashby House
E-Mail rhopley@bowdoin.edu
Bowdoin College: Russell J. Hopley

Spring 2012

  • Elementary Arabic II (ARAB 102)
  • Intermediate Arabic II (ARAB 204)
  • Intermediate Independent Study in Arabic (ARAB 291)
  • Intermediate Independent Study in Arabic (ARAB 292)

Education

Princeton University, ABD
Loyola University Chicago, M.A., 1999
Stanford University, M.A., 1996
Northwestern University, B.A., 1991

Publications

“Fidá in Andalusia: An Analysis of the Legal and Historical Framework”, in Ivy Corfis ed. Hybridity and Cultural Diffusion in Medieval Iberia (forthcoming E. J. Brill, June 2009).

“Diplomatic Immunity” in John Esposito ed. Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam (forthcoming Oxford University Press, 2009). Co-authored with Khaled Abu al-Fadl.

“Leadership” in Muhammad Qasim Zaman et al. ed. Princeton Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought (forthcoming Princeton University Press, 2010)

Professional Presentations

"Hajj versus Jihad: Some Andalusian Considerations", scheduled for presentation at the conference Mirror Images: Challenges for Arabic Islamic Studies.
Villanova University, Philadelphia 4/09

"The Plague in Islamic Lands: Juristc Responses from Andalusia and North Africa", scheduled for presentation at the conference Rhetorics of Plague.
State University of New York, Albany 2/09

"Sufis and Holy Men in Medieval Andalusia and North Africa", scheduled for presentation at the symposium Comparative Mysticisms of the Middle Ages. University of Southern Florida, Tampa Bay 2/09

"The Translation of Nature: Al-Sharif al-Idrissi on the Plant Life of the Western Mediterranean", presented at the conference Translating the Middle Ages. University of Illinois, Champagne-Urbana 10/08

"Fida' in Andalusia: An Analysis of the Legal and Historical Framework", presented at the conference Hybridity and Cultural Diffusion in Medieval Iberia. University of Wisconsin, Madison 10/07

Teaching Experience

Princeton University
Loyola University Chicago
Stanford University
Arabic Language Institute in Fez, Morocco
American Language Center Damascus, Syria
Northwestern University