Prof Ziad Elmarsafy

Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 3678

Email

zme1@st-andrews.ac.uk

Office

Room 101

Location

Buchanan

Office hours

On leave in Semester 2, 2025-26

 

PhD supervision

• Daniel Lightfoot
• Muhammad Rizwan

Selected publications

• Esoteric Islam in modern French thought: Massignon, Corbin, Jambet

  Elmarsafy, Z. M., 28 Jan 2021, London: Bloomsbury Academic. 177 p. (New directions in religion and literature)

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Literature, history, and historiography

  Elmarsafy, Z., 1 Apr 2021, In: Alif. 41, 1, p. 7-8

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial › peer-review

• Literature, history, and historiography

  Elmarsafy, Z. M. (Editor), 1 Apr 2021, In: Alif. 41, 598 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Special issue › peer-review

• Between Literature and History

  Elmarsafy, Z., 2020, Scholarship between Europe and the Levant: Essays in Honour of Alastair Hamilton. Loop, J. & Kraye, J. (eds.). Leiden: Brill, p. 7-14 8 p. (History of Oriental Studies; vol. 8).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• The Sufi, the idol, and the icon: Meddeb's visions

  Elmarsafy, Z., 9 Dec 2020, In: Expressions maghrébines. 19, 2, p. 99-117 19 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Translations of the Qurʾan: Western languages

  Elmarsafy, Z. M., 14 May 2020, The Oxford handbook of Qurʾanic studies. Shah, M. & Abdel Haleem, M. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 540-551 12 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

• Apocalyptic narration: The Qur’an in contemporary Arabic fiction

  Elmarsafy, Z., 1 Jan 2016, The Routledge Companion to Literature and Religion. Taylor and Francis, p. 354-364 11 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Action, imagination, institution, natality, revolution

  Elmarsafy, Z., 3 Apr 2015, In: Journal for Cultural Research. 19, 2, p. 130-138 9 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Desiring Revolution II1

  Elmarsafy, Z., Apr 2015, In: CounterText. 1, 1, p. 76-89 14 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Introduction: What postcolonial theory doesn't say

  Bernard, A., Elmarsafy, Z. & Murray, S., 11 Aug 2015, What postcolonial theory doesn't say. Taylor and Francis, p. 1-10 10 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Foreword/postscript

 

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