Raashid S. Goyal researches the history, languages, and literature of the early Islamic and pre-Islamic Near East, with a particular interest in the development of legal and political ideas in the early centuries of Islam. He received his Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies from Cornell University (2023). His recent and forthcoming publications include “Rebel’s Advocate: How Abū ʿUbayda Maʿmar b. al-Muthannā Came to be Labelled a Khārijite,” “The Gestation of Arabic Biography: Genre and Method in Early Traditionist Writings,” and “Arabness before Islam: Views from the Poetry and the Nasab Literature.”

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