Shawkat M. ToorawaShawkat M. Toorawa is Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Yale University. His books include Interpreting the Self: Autobiography in the Arabic Literary Tradition (2001), co-authored with the RRAALL group; Ibn Abi Tahir Tayfur an Arabic Writerly Culture (2005); Arabic Literary Culture: 500–925 (2005), co-edited with Michael Cooperson; The Western Indian Ocean: Essays on Islands and Islanders (2007); and a critical edition and collaborative translation with the editors of the Library of Arabic Literature of Ibn al-Sa‘i’s Consorts of the Caliphs: Women and the court of Baghdad (2015). Read More Read Less