Books By Luke B. (University of California, Los Angeles) Yarbrough - Author

Luke B. Yarbrough is Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at University of California, Los Angeles. A specialist in early and medieval Islamic history, he previously taught at Saint Louis University, Missouri, and the Sorbonne, and held research fellowships at the University of Pennsylvania and New York University, Abu Dhabi. He is the author of numerous scholarly articles, as well as a recent edition of a medieval Arabic polemic from Egypt, The Sword of Ambition, by Uthman ibn Ibrahim al-Nabulusi (2016). He holds a Ph.D. from Princeton University, New Jersey and has studied and researched widely in the Middle East, notably in Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, and Tunisia.