tkelly@pmu.edu.sa
Prof. Tynan Kelly recieved his doctorate from the University of Chicago in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations with a focus on Arabic Literature and Linguistics.
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PhD |
University of Chicago |
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Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations August 2021 Dissertation: “Prophetic Eloquence as Linguistic Precedent: Ḥadīth in Arabic Philology in the 2nd–5th/8th–11th Centuries” Graduated with Honors Committee: Tahera Qutbuddin (chair), Fred Donner, Ahmed El Shamsy |
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MA |
American University of Beirut |
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Middle Eastern Studies June 2013 |
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Thesis: “Polyphony and the Mask in Modern Arabic Poetry” |
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Advisor: Assaad Khairallah |
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BA |
University of Chicago |
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Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations June 2009 |
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Thesis: “The Druze Interpretation of the Fall of Adam” |
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Graduated with Honors |
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Advisor: Paul Walker |
Eloquence and Authority in Muḥammad’s Arabic (in progress, chapters available upon request)
“‘O Jupiter, O Fortune, Send Forth My Message’: A Diglossic Qaṣīdah by a Druze Woman,” Journal of Arabic Literature 57.1–2 (2026): 153–176.
“Detecting Text Reuse in Historical Arabic Texts: Challenges and Strategies,” Journal of Digital Islamicate Research 3.2 (2025): 262–295.
“A Sea-Change in Qurʾānic Hermeneutics: Ḥadīth Citation in al-Farrāʾ’s (d. 207/822) Maʿānī l-Qurʾān,” Journal of Qurʾanic Studies 26.1 (2024): 1–37.
“The Language and Authority of Ali’s Hadith,” in The Legacy of Ali. Edited by Tahera Qutbuddin. Leiden: Brill, forthcoming 2027.
“Ali as Master of Eloquence in the Virtue Literature,” in The Legacy of Ali. Edited by Tahera Qutbuddin. Leiden: Brill, forthcoming 2027.
Review of The Second Canonization of the Qurʾān (324/936): Ibn Mujāhid and the Founding of the Seven Readings, by Shady Nasser, Journal of Near Eastern Studies 82.1 (2023): 148–151.
Review of Language between God and the Poets: Maʿnā in the Eleventh Century, by Alexander Key, Journal of Near Eastern Studies 80.1 (2021): 224–227.
(Translator, editor) Said Yaktin, “Narratology and Narration in Classical Arabic Literature,” in Literature: A World History, vol. II. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2022.
(Translator, editor) Said Yaktin, “Narratology and Narration in Modern Arabic Literature,” in Literature: A World History, vol. IV. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2022.
“‘O Jupiter, O Fortune’: A Critical Edition and Critical-Linguistic Analysis of a Diglossic Qaṣīdah by an Anonymous Druze Woman”
“The alNaql Dataset: 100 Million Classical Arabic Semantic Matches”
“IslamBERT: A Classical-Arabic Exclusive Semantic Encoder”
“al-Qirāʾāt al-maʿzuwwah ilā Muḥammad qabl al-tasbīʿ” (Qurʾānic Readings Attributed to Muḥammad before Canonization of the Seven Readings)
“The Irreligious Verse of al-Mutanabbī”
“ʿĀʾishah’s Interpretation of the Qurʾān in Early Exegesis”
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Assistant Professor of the Humanities Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University |
August 2024 – Present |
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Humanities Teaching Fellow University of Chicago
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September 2021 – August 2023 |
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Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University (20–26 contact hours per week per semester)
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Biography of the Prophet Muḥammad (Core Department) |
2024–26 |
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Islamic Society and Culture (Core Department) |
2024–26 |
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Written Communication (Core Department) |
2024–26 |
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Writing and Research (Core Department) |
2024–26 |
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University of Chicago (Two courses per quarter)
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Islamic Thought and Literature (Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations) |
2021–23 |
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Humor in Muslim Literatures (Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations) |
2022 |
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Human Being and Citizen (College Core) |
2021–23 |
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Advanced Arabic Syntax* (Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations) |
2020 |
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University of Texas at Austin (6 contact hours per week per semester)
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Arabic Language* |
2013–14 |
Ḥadīth, Qurʾānic Studies, Arabic Linguistics, Arabic Literature, Comparative Semitics, Linguistic Anthropology, Language Ideology, Critical Language Theory, Critical Theolinguistics, Transmission and Textual Networks, Digital Methods, Women’s Arabic Literature, Arabic-speaking Minority Groups
