Rkia Elaroui CornellTeaching Professor and Language Coordinator in Arabic

Education/Degrees

• Ph.D., Theology and Philosophy, Free University of Amsterdam

Teaching/Research Areas

• Arabic Pedagogy
• Arabic Literature (Modern and Classical)
• Sufism and Sufi Literature
• Women in Islam
• Qur’anic Studies and Exegesis

Books Published

• Rabi’a from Narrative to Myth: The Many Faces of Islam’s Most Famous Woman Saint, Rabi‘a al-‘Adawiyya (ca. 717-801 CE) (London: Oneworld Academic, 2019)
• Early Sufi Women: Dhikr an-niswa al-muta‘abbidat as-Sufiyyat by Abu ‘Abd ar-Rahman as-Sulami (Louisville, Kentucky: Fons Vitae, 1999)