# Khaled El-Rouayheb James Richard Jewett Professor of Islamic Intellectual History Director of Graduate Studies ![El-Rouayheb](/sites/g/files/omnuum4571/files/styles/hwp_4_5__480x600/public/2026-01/IMG_0038.jpeg?h=7481edf5&itok=lA8uWK6V) location\_on Harvard – NELC, #203 6 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138 smartphone [617-495-1681](tel:617-495-1681) email laptop\_windows [Sign up for office hours here](https://calendly.com/khaledelrouayheb/office-hours-2) laptop\_windows [Khaled El-Rouayheb: scholar.harvard.edu](https://scholar.harvard.edu/khaled_elrouayheb/home) Office Hours = Tuesdays, 11:00pm - 1:00pm Khaled El-Rouayheb’s research interests include: the intellectual and cultural history of the Arabic-Islamic world in the Mamluk and early-Ottoman periods (1200-1800); the history of Arabic logic; Islamic theology and philosophy. He holds a BA in Philosophy from the University of Copenhagen (Denmark), a MA in Middle Eastern History from the American University of Beirut (Lebanon), and a PhD (2003) from the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Cambridge (United Kingdom). His publications include three monographs: *Before Homosexuality in the Arabic-Islamic World, 1500-1800* (University of Chicago Press, 2005), *Relational Syllogisms & the History of Arabic Logic, 900-1900* (Brill, 2010), and *Islamic Intellectual History in the Seventeenth Century* (Cambridge University Press, 2015). He has also prepared an edition of *Kashf al-asrar ‘an ghawamid al-afkar, a summa of logic by Afdal al-Din al-Khunaji* (d.1248) (Iranian Institute for Philosophy, 2010). He is the co-editor (along with Sabine Schmidtke of the Institute of Advanced Studies, Princeton) of *The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Philosophy* (2016). - ## People Type [Faculty](/people-faculty) - ## People [Faculty](/faculty-0) [Core Faculty](/core-faculty) [Administration](/administration-0)