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(Clicky for piccy!)Peter Webb studied Arabic at SOAS, University of London and at the University of Damascus. He then qualified as a solicitor in the insolvency and restructuring law practice at Clifford Chance LLP in London before returning to academia and a Ph.D. at SOAS in Languages and Cultures of the Near and Middle East. Following his Ph.D., he was awarded an Art Histories and Aesthetic Practices Fellowship 2014-15 by the Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin, and a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2015, hosted at SOAS. He joined Leiden University in 2017.
In August 2017, Peter Webb received a Veni grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) for his research projec
Webb P.A. (2017), Identity and Social Formation in the Early Caliphate. In: Berg H. (Ed.) Routledge Handbook on Early Islam. London: Routledge. 129-158.
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Ibn Qutaybah (2017), The Excellence of the Arabs [Fadl al-'Arab wa-l-tanbih 'ala 'ulumiha] (translation: Montgomery J., Savant S. & Webb P.A.). New York and Abu Dhabi: New York University Press.
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Webb P.A. (2016), Imagining the Arabs: Arab Identity and the Rise of Islam. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
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Webb P.A. (2016), Muḥammad und die gāhiliyya: Die vorislamische Zeit im prophetischen ḥadīt. In: Schmidt Nora, Schmid Nora K, Neuwirth Angelika (Eds.) Denkraum Spätantike. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. 447-466.
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Webb P.A. (2015), Pre-Islamic al-Shām in Classical Arabic Literature: Spatial narratives and history-telling, Studia Islamika 110(2): 1-30.
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Webb P.A. (2014), Al-Jāhiliyya: Uncertain Times of Uncertain Meanings, Der Islam 91(1): 69-94.
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Webb P.A. (2013), Poetry and the Early Islamic Historical Tradition: Poetry and narratives of the Battle of Ṣiffīn. In: Kennedy Hugh (Ed.) Poetry and Warfare in Middle Eastern Literatures. London: IB Tauris. 119-141.
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Webb P.A. (2013), The Hajj before Muhammad: Journeys to Mecca in Muslim Narratives of Pre-Islamic History. In: Saif Liana, Porter Venetia (Eds.) The Hajj: Collected Papers. London: British Museum Press. 6-14.
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Webb P.A. (2012), ‘Foreign Books’ in Arabic Literature: discourses on books, knowlegde and ethnicity in the writings of al-Jahiz, Arabica: Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies/Arabica: Revue d'Etudes Arabes 12(1): 16-55.
Webb P.A. (2012), Muhammad’s ascension to the Heavenly Spheres: ‘Utopian Travel’: Fact and Fiction in making Utopias, Middle Eastern Literatures 15(3): 240-256.
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Book reviews
Webb P.A. (2018), Review of: Shahab Ahmed (2017) Before Orthodoxy: the Satanic Verses in Early Islam, Journal of Arabic Literature 49: 162-167.
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Webb P.A. (2017), Review of: Harry Munt (2014) The Holy City of Medina: Sacred Space in Early Islamic Arabia, The British Foundation for the Study of Arabia Bulletin 22: 43-45.
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Webb & Peter (2016), Review of: Konrad Hirschler Medieval Damascus: Plurality and Diversity in an Arabic Library, TLS : the Times Literary Supplement .
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Webb P.A. (2016), Review of: Greg Fisher (Ed.) Arabs and Empires before Islam, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 79(3): 640-642.
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Webb P.A. (2015), Review of: Aziz al-Azmeh (2014) The Emergence of Islam in Late Antiquity, Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā 23: 149-153.
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Webb P.A. (2015), Review of: Robert Hoyland (2015) In God's Path, TLS : the Times Literary Supplement .
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Webb P.A. (2013), Review of: Geert Jan van Gelder (2012) Classical Arabic Literature, TLS : the Times Literary Supplement .
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Webb P.A. (2012), Review of: Tom Holland In the Shadow of the Sword, Evening Standard .
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Webb P.A. (2012), Review of: Malcolm Lyons (2012) The Man of Wiles in Popular Arabic Literature, TLS : the Times Literary Supplement .
Webb P.A. (2016), The origin of Arabs: Middle Eastern ethnicity and myth-making, British Academy Review 27(1): 34-39.
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Topic: Qur'anic studies today