Hisham Mahmoud

Hisham Mahmoud is working towards completing his Ph.D. at UCLA in Islamic Studies, with a focus on Arabic language and literature, and a minor in Hebrew. He has studied Arabic for several years with scholars in the United States, Egypt, Spain, and Mauritania, where he pursued the sciences of grammar, morphology, philology, etymology, rhetoric, and poetry, and has been teaching formally for three years. He has taught Arabic at UCLA, Middlebury, and Yale University, and has translated and edited several classical Arabic works on issues pertaining to ethics, philosophy, and jurisprudence. He has also lectured at dozens of universities nationwide on subjects related to comparative religion, and is the Executive Editor for the Zaytuna Curriculum Series.