Alexander Key

Alexander Key has served on the Advisory Board of Stanford's Markaz Resource Center since 2018 and has been teaching and researching Arabic literature at Stanford since 2012, when he received his PhD in Arabic and Islamic Studies from Harvard. His book, Language Between God and the Poets (UC Press, open access) explains Classical Arabic theories about poetry and philosophy to all who are interested in how language produces affect and reflects the world. He is currently working on an under-contract edition and translation of al-Jurjani's Dala'il al-I'jaz for the Library of Arabic Literature.