Dr Matthew L Keegan
@drkeegan.bsky.social
Professor of Arabic Lit, reader of riddles, lecturer of the ostensibly old and obscure. Formerly in the bad place: Lit_as_Adab https://barnard.academia.edu/MatthewKeegan (Opinions expressed here are my own and do not reflect those of my employer.)
My first monograph "Before World Literature" will be released by the University of Pennsylvania Press in March 2026. I hope it will be of interest to folks in comparative literature, Islamic studies, and classical Arabic literature.
www.pennpress.org/978151282887...
www.pennpress.org/978151282887...
September 6, 2025 at 9:50 PM
My first monograph "Before World Literature" will be released by the University of Pennsylvania Press in March 2026. I hope it will be of interest to folks in comparative literature, Islamic studies, and classical Arabic literature.
www.pennpress.org/978151282887...
www.pennpress.org/978151282887...
I'll be posting some material from the old hellsite because I was trying to post pre-publication material and to summarize already-published stuff that people might not available. I'll start with Leo Africanus’s Cosmography. The recent translation had some glancing citations of my scholarship.
February 8, 2025 at 7:38 AM
I'll be posting some material from the old hellsite because I was trying to post pre-publication material and to summarize already-published stuff that people might not available. I'll start with Leo Africanus’s Cosmography. The recent translation had some glancing citations of my scholarship.
Transcription challenge (and a distraction from it all). I've been working on transcribing some samāʿāt but still lots of uncertainties. More on this manuscript to come IA. It is a copy of Maṣāriʿ al-ʿUshshāq with a riwāya that goes through Fakhr al-Nisāʾ. Suggestions welcome #arabic #مخطوطات
February 8, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Happy to have helped in a tiny way with this translation of Leo Africanus’s Cosmography, in which there is a glancing reference to a commentary on Al-Hariri’s Maqamat… that thing I wrote my dissertation about.
August 3, 2023 at 11:36 PM
Happy to have helped in a tiny way with this translation of Leo Africanus’s Cosmography, in which there is a glancing reference to a commentary on Al-Hariri’s Maqamat… that thing I wrote my dissertation about.