Matti Moosa
Matti Moosa (born 1924 in Mosul , Iraq ; died December 30, 2014 in Erie , Pennsylvania ) was an Iraqi-American historian and literary scholar .
Live and act
Matti Moosa was born in Mosul in the Kingdom of Iraq in 1924 . He was a member of the Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch , into which he was born and where he grew up. He was also ordained a deacon. He lived in the United States from 1960 and became a US citizen in 1965. He earned a degree in Iraq from Baghdad Law School , a United Nations Diploma of Merit from the University of Wales at Swansea , then an MA and a Ph.D. in Middle Eastern History and Culture from Columbia University in New York , NY
He taught as Professor of History and Comparative Religions at Gannon University , a private Catholic university in Erie , Pennsylvania . His main focus was on Arabic literature and the history of the Middle East. He died on December 30, 2014.
Publications (selection)
- Studies in Syriac literature . ( Muslim World , Volume 58, 1968)
- Hameed, Hakim Abdul (ed.); Matti I. Moosa: "The Diwan of Umar ibn Al-Khattab ", in: Studies in Islam , Vol. 2, No. 2-4, 1965. Quarterly Journal of Indian Institute of Islamic Studies. New Delhi: Indian Institute of Islamic Studies , 1964
- Gibran in Paris. Yusuf Huwayyik ; translated and with an introd. by Matti Moosa. New York 1976
- The Maronites in History. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse Univ. Press, 1986
- Extremist Shiites: The Ghulat sects. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse Univ. Pr., 1988
- The Crusades: Conflict between Christendom and Islam. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2008
- The scattered pearls: a history of Syriac literature and siences. / Mor Ignatius Ephrem bar hem . 2nd, rev. ed .-- Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2003
- The early novels of Naguib Mahfouz : images of modern Egypt. Gainesville, FL [et al. a.]: Univ. Press of Florida, 1995
- The origins of modern Arabic fiction. Washington, DC: Three Continents Pr., 1983 *
- The Christians Under Turkish Rule
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References and footnotes
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Moosa, Matti |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Moosa, Matti; Moosa, Matti Isaac; Mūsā, Mattī |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Iraqi-American Middle East historian and literary scholar (Arabic literature) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1924 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mosul , Iraq |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 30, 2014 |
| Place of death | Erie , Pennsylvania |