Adam Flowers

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Humanities Teaching Fellow
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Ph.D. University of Chicago, 2022

Adam Flowers is a scholar of the text, history, and interpretation of the Qur’ān and a historian of early Islam. He is currently a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in the Humanities in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and the Humanities Core.

 

His research and teaching interests include:

-the text, history, and interpretation of the Qur’ān

-early Islamic history, thought, and literature

-the literary traditions of Late Antiquity

-Arabic papyrology

-literary theory

 

Adam received his PhD from the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago in 2022, his MA from the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Chicago in 2015, and his BA in Religion from Bard College in 2013.

Affiliated Departments and Centers: Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Subject Area: Islamic History and Civilization