J. Willard Marriott Library Special Collections
Lois Giffen papers
Giffen, Lois Anita
ACCN 3017
1.75 linear feet
4 boxes
1928-1998
The Lois Giffen papers (1928-1998) consist primarily of course materials and photocopies of various texts related to the Middle East. Giffen taught Arabic Literature and Islamic Studies at the University of Utah.
English
, Arabic
, French
.
Lois Anita Giffen earned her Ph.D. from Columbia University in Arabic and Islamic Studies. She was an Associate Professor of Arabic Literature and Islamic Studies at the University of Utah. Giffen was the author of The Theory of Profane Love Among the Arabs: The Development of the Genre.
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Donated by Lois Giffen in 2017.
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The Lois Giffen papers (1928-1998) consist primarily of course materials and photocopies of various texts related to the Middle East. The photocopies are portions from Arabic, English, and French texts. The course materials includes photocopies from various texts as a supplement to the course textbook. The correspondence primarily concerns her time at the University of Utah Middle East Center. Articles written by Giffen are found in the "Reprints" file.
Giffen, Lois Anita--Archives
University of Utah--Faculty--Archives
University of Utah. Middle East Center--Archives
Middle East--Study and teaching--Sources
Arabic language--Study and teaching--Sources
Dissertations
Photocopies
Newsletters
Correspondence
Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
Course materials
Bibliographies
1998
1
1
Books
1928-1993
1
2
Classification and Nomenclature of Beads and Pendants by Horace C. Beck (incomplete);A Touch of Wonderby Arthur Gordon; and Belief and Islamby Wqf Ikhlas Publications.
Correspondence
1983-1991
1
3
Includes material related to coursework, fellowships, and A Report on The Middle East Center at the University of Utah presented to the Institutional Council, February 1977.
Course materials: Arabic 304
1
4
Course materials: Arabic 516R
1989
1
5
Course materials: Arabic 516
1
6-7
Course materials: Survey of Contemporary Persian Literature
1
8
Portland State University, Professor Lorentz
Dissertations: "Shi'ite Political Poetry during the Umayyad Period" by Abdulla A. al-Qatam
1992
2
1
Magazines: The Atlantic Monthly, Perspective of The Arab World, An Atlantic Supplement
1956
2
2
Newsletters: University of Utah The Middle East Center
1980-1985
2
4
Notes
1969
2
5
Photocopies: The Assemblies of Hariri
2
6
Photocopies: "Contemporary Islamic Political Thought: Sayyid Qutb" by Ahmed Salah al-Din Moussalli
2
7
Dissertation.
Photocopies: Fetoua a la Condition des Zimmis
2
8
Photocopies: Historie de L'expedition des Francais en Egypte
3
1
Photocopies: Livre la Lampe des Tenebres
3
2
Photocopies: The Passion of the Western Mind
3
3
Photocopies: Patrologia Orientalis
3
4
Photocopies: "The Philosophy of Punishment in Islamic Law" by Mustafa A Kara
3
5
Dissertation.
Photocopies: Risalat Ul Ghufran
3
6
Photocopies: Social and Natural Sciences: The Islamic Perspective
4
1
Photocopies: The Spiritual Physick of Rhazes
4
2
Photocopies: Arabic texts
4
3
Photocopies: French texts
4
4
Printed ephemera
1974-1992
4
5
Reprints
1967-1984
4
6
Consists of articles written by Lois Giffen and others.
Speeches: "The Modern Literary Idiom" by Ehsan Yar-Shater
1968
4
7
Writings
1982-1986
4
8
Abstract and biographies written by Lois A. Giffen; From the Hieroglphs to the Cross, Egyptian Philosophy and Christian Gnosis by Richard M. Soucri; and The Idea of an Anthropology of Islam by Talal Asad.