Arabic & Islamic Studies

Nadia Inji Khan

PhD  ·  University of Chicago

I am a scholar of Arabic and Islamic intellectual history, with a focus on the transmission of knowledge across the medieval Mediterranean. My work examines how manuscript traditions, translation practices, and scholarly networks shaped the formation of Islamic philosophy and theology between the ninth and thirteenth centuries.

My dissertation, "Circuits of the Pen: Scribal Communities and the Geography of Islamic Learning, 900–1200," reconstructs the social and material conditions of book culture in the pre-modern Islamic world. I am currently revising the manuscript for publication.

Before Chicago, I completed my BA at [Undergraduate Institution]. My research has been supported by fellowships from [Funding Body] and [Funding Body].