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Shawkat M. Toorawa (born 1963) is an Associate Professor of Arabic Literature and Islamic Studies at Cornell University. He has published extensively in Classic and Medieval Arabic Literature, and has also published translations of Arabic text. He identifies himself as a multicultural Muslim having lived in Mauritius, England, Japan, Hong Kong and the US. He is a faculty member in the Near Eastern Studies Department at Cornell University and currently serves as the Faculty in Residence at Mews Hall on North Campus. == Biography == Toorawa was born in London, England to Mauritian parents of Indian origin. Both parents were Muslim, one Shia and one Sunni, and were married in 1962. The family moved three years later, in 1965, to Paris, France where his father was transferred. He first became aware of being Muslim in 1966 through his Senegalese tutor, Abdullah Diop, who came to their apartment daily to teach him the Arabic Script and stories about the prophets. A year later, at the age of five he began attending the English School of Paris. It was here that he learnt about Moses, Jesus and Muhammad and began constructing his understanding of interfaith differences. His parents told him the “different people believed different things” and that as Muslims they “did not believe that Jesus had been killed or that he had died on the cross, but that Christians did, and that was OK.”〔Shawkat Toorawa, (‘’Meditations of a Multicultural Muslim’’ )〕 He performed the Hajj with his family before they moved to Osaka, Japan and then Hong Kong in 1972. A year later the family moved to Singapore where he attended an international school. Though the population of Singapore is 15% Muslim, in the school for expatriates he was the only Muslim.〔(CIA Factbook - Singapore )〕 He credits this system with cultivating his love of all faiths and their traditions. He read The Lord’s Prayer at assembly and still sings Christmas carols. In 1981 he left Singapore to pursue a Bachelor’s degree with honors in Oriental Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He graduated Magna Cum Laude in 1985.〔(VIVO Cornell )〕 He continued to pursue his education at the University of Pennsylvania for the next four years and graduated with a Master of Arts in Oriental Studies (Arabic and Islamic Studies) in 1989. He returned to the university in 1998 to pursue a Ph.D. in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (Islamic Near East) with distinction. While completing his Ph.D he travelled back to Mauritius often and taught at the University of Mauritius until 2000, when he returned to interview with Cornell University. At Cornell he was hired to teach Arabic Literature. He has written extensively about Classic and Medieval Arabic Literature, Modern Arabic poetry, the Quran, Islam and the Indian Ocean. His research focuses mainly on the Middle East and South Asia. He is currently preparing a critical edition of the Shifa' al-‘alil by the eighteenth-century belletrist Azad Bilgrami. He is a Mellon Foundation New Directions Fellow. This prestigious fellowship is awarded to established scholar-teachers to encourage research. He is also Co-Executive Editor of the Library of Arabic Literature, an initiative to translate classical and premodern Arabic Literature〔(Cornell University Department of Near Eastern Studies )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Shawkat Toorawa」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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