CURRICULUM VITAE
William J.
Wilson
Associate
Professor Emeritus
Department of Near Eastern Studies
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Education
1949 B.A.,
1959 M.A.,
1962
1963 Graduate
Certificate of Area Studies:
1965 Ph.D.,
1966
Military Experience
Military Intelligence, USAR: 2d lt 1951, 1st lt 1954, capt 1958.
Teaching Positions
1951 Assistant Instructor,
Department of Modern Languages, University of
1955-60, 1964 Graduate Teaching
Assistant,
1964-65 Instructor,
1965-71 Assistant Professor in
Oriental Studies, University of
1967 Visiting Assistant
Professor,
1971-90 Associate Professor of
Oriental Studies, University of
1990-2003 Associate Professor
of Near Eastern Studies,
2003 – Associate Professor Emeritus
Administrative Positions
1969 Director of Arabic,
Lybia II Peace Corps Training Program,
1976-77
Acting Head, Department of Oriental Studies,
1981-82
Acting Executive Secretary,
1990, 91, 93, 95(Summers) Acting Head , Department of Near Eastern Studies,
University of
Publications
Review: JG Pedley,
233 abstracts (of articles in English, German, French, and Arabic), Historical Abstracts, 1968-87
"Snake Envenomization , Its Theory and Treatment in Medieval Arabic
Literature," Proceedings of the Second International Synposium for the History of Arabic Science,
Papers Read
"Al-J~hiz
on Snakes,
Snake Envenomization, Its Theory and Treatment in Medieval Arabic Literature,
Second International Symposium for
the History of Arabic Science,
Al-Qalqashand§ on Hippology,
Honors, Awards, Grants
Rosenbaum Scholarship, University of Utah, 1951-52
Elected to Sigma Xi, 1956
National Defense Foreign Language Fellowship, Summer 1960, 1960-61, Summer 1961, 1961-62, Summer 1962, 1962-63
Grant for Research,
Grant,
Medal, Al-Mu`tamar al-ãl~ li-al-udab~' al-sa`ãd§y§n
(First Conference of Saudi Writers),
Travel Grant,
Five-Star Faculty Award, nominee 1987, one of five finalists 1994
Master and Doctoral Committees (* Indicates committees chaired or director of dissertation)
*Mohammed al-Jazairi, ADiplomatic
History of Saudi Arabia 1903-1960's,@
M.A., 1967. Later Dean of the Faculty of Arts,
*Walter B. Bevens, "Umayyad Desert Palaces," M.A., 1967
*Philip Pritchard, "A Military Analysis of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War," M.A., 1969
*Francis M. Carroll, "The Qarmatians: A Secular History," M.A., 1972. Later with The National Security Agency.
*Abid Gama,
"The United Nations and the Palestinian Refugees: An Analysis of the
United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the
Madani A. Alaki,
"Industrial-Vocational Education in
Abdullah M. Al-Sabhan,
"Changing Organizations within a Changing Society:
*Sadoun A. Nafisee, M.A., 1973
*Bobby V. Whitaker, M.A., 1973
*Ahmad H. Uqbi, M.A., 1973
John E. Hooke, M.A., 1973
*Najia M. Alkheriji, "The Economic Conditions and Settlement of
the Bedouins in
*Hussein O. Mansour, "The
Discovery of Oil and Its Impact on the Industrialization of
Robert M. Whitsett,
"The Causes Leading to Muhammad Ghuri's Conquest
of
Kathleen A. Taylor, "History of the Nizari Isma'ilis through the 13th Century," M.A. 1974
*Abdul-Rahman S. Sultan, M.A. (HIST), 1974
*Mohamed S. Shalhub, M.A. (HIST), 1974
Muntazar
H. Hakim, "The Preparation of Educational
Administrators in
*Assad Malaika, M.A. (HIST), 1974
Donald D. Dunlop, M.A., 1975
Thomas A. Ranney, M.A., 1975
*Duncan H. MacInnes,
"Urbanization and the Emergence of the Middle Class in
*Donna A. I. MacInnes, "Poetry and the Development of Palestinian Cultural Nationalism," M.A., 1975
Richard B. Kepner, "The Military Role in the Development of Turkish Politics," M.A., 1976
Donald F. Saffold, M.A., 1976
Stephen M. Sasfy, M.A., 1976
*Jock O. Olney, "A Study of the Qur'an in Its Historical and Cultural Context," M.A. 1976
Paul L. Neron, "Arab Socialism: A Comparative Study of Nasserism and Baathism," M.A., 1978
Kenneth Lizzio, "Sobriety and Ecstasy: Divine Union in the works of Junayd and Hallaj.@ M.A., 1978
Bonnie A. Stewart, "The Impact
of
Ghulam M. Fayez, "Mystic Ideas and Images in Jalal al-Din Rumi and Walt Whitman," Ph.D. (English), 1978
James J. Sanchez, "Travelers' Accounts of
*M.Anwar Albakri, "The Relationship between the Prophet and the
Jews from His Arrival in
Victor B. Eure, M.A., 1980
*Mashail A. AlSudairy, "Prophet Muhammad's Image through Western History," M.A., 1980
*Talal
Yusuf, "Sa'd Zaghlul and the Egyptian Revolution
of 1919," M.A. 1980. Later with The Saudi
Arabian Educational
*Neysa F. Saunders, "Modern Political Parties in the Middle East," M.A., 1980
*Mehdi M. Imberesh, M.A., 1980. Later with Libyan embassy, Bonn.
Paul Neron, Ph.D., 1980
*Suad M. Muhammad, "The Zanj Revolution (869-883) in the Abbasid Era," M.A., 1981
Richard K. Myers, "The Problem of Authority: Franz Kafka and Najib Mahfuz," M.A. 1982
Mansour M. El-Babour, "Urban Networks in Eastern Abbasid Lands: An Historical Geography of Settlement in Mesopotamia and Persia, Ninth and Tenth Century A.D.," Ph.D. (GEOG), 1981
*Kimberly C. McNeil, "A Critical Translation of the Article on the Horse from al-Dam§r§'s Hay~t al-hayaw~n al-kubr~, M.A., 1983. Later with U.S. Department of State.
*Abdulgialil M. Harrama, Some Aspects of Negation in Modern Standard Arabic, M.A., 1983
*Lee T. Samore, A Sociolinguistic History of the Lebanese Orthodox-Christian Community in Sioux City, Iowa, M.A. 1983. Later on faculty of the Defense Language Institute, Monterey, CA
*Lee Cooper, Travelers' Accounts as a Source for the Study of Nineteenth Century Wahh~bism, M.A., 1983. Thesis published in Arabic translation (Cairo 1991)
*Alberto M. Fernandez, "The Coptic Orthodox Salvation Theology of Anba Shenuda III," M.A., 1983. Later with U.S. Department of State.
Kristen S. Habeeb, "Soviet Policy toward Israel: 1947-1966," M.A., 1983. Later with The National Security Agency.
*Abdulrahman A. Kurdi, "The Islamic State: A Perspective of the Islamic Holy Revelation," Ph.D., 1983. Later Professor, Umm al-Qurrah University, Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Dissertation published.
Linda J, Wentink, "The Modernist Movement in Urdu Fiction in India and Pakistan," Ph.D., 1983
Deborah Beaumont, "The Nature of Iconography in Persian Minatures," M.A., 1984
*Tarfah S. Ghannam, "Tribe, Family, Women in Modern Saudi Arabia," M.A., 1984
Brian Peck, "King Husayn of Jordan: Tradition and Change in a Modern Middle Eastern Monarchy," M.A., 1985
Hy Rubin D. Shelow, "The Political Development of Afghanistan from Abdur Rahman to the Present," M.A., 1985
Aziz M. Bugti, M.A., 1985
*John Lowe, "Monetary Development in F~timid Egypt and Syria (358-567/969-1171), M.A., 1985. Later Ph.D. from UCLA.
Abdulaziz A. al-Eisa, An Ecological Study of Bedouin Elementary School Education in Hail Province, Saudi Arabia, Ph.D. (Foundations of Education), 1985
*Laura B. Kay, "Social and Political Criticism in Tawfiq al-Hakim's Plays," M.A., 1986. Later with The National Security Agency.
*Catherine Breslin, "Abu Hanifah al-Dinawari's Book of Plants: An Anotated English Translation of the Extant Alphabetical Portion," M.A., 1986
Lamia M. Baeshen, "Robinson Crusoe and Hayy bin Yaqzan: A Comparative Study," Ph.D. (English), 1986
*Doris Fischer-Kamel, "The Midwife in History with Special Emphasis on Practice in Medieval Europe and in the Islamic World, M.A., 1987
*Khalil A. Almeer, Translation of `Umar ibn `Abd al-`Aziz' Biography from al- Suyuti's Book T~r§kh al-Khulaf~, M.A., 1987
Hussein R. Abdu, "Italian Loanwords in Colloquial Libyan Arabic as Spoken in the Tripoli Region," Ph.D., 1987
*Ray Rafidi, "Some Problems in Palestinian Education in Israel," M.A., 1988
*Nayef Alshamrookh, "Uthman ibn Affan, the Third Caliph," M.A. (HIST), 1988 (Ph.D., 1993, U. Manchester then joined faculty of U. of Kuwait)
*Ibrahim Naim, "Feudalism in Mount Lebanon, 18th and 19th Centuries," M.A. 1988
Peggy Hutchinson, "Palestinian Poetry from 1967-1979," M.A., 1988
*Walter B. Bevens, "Al-Yaman and the Hadramawt: Translations from Medieval Geographers and Analysis," Ph.D., 1988.
*James J. Sanchez, "Soviet Azerbaijan and Comparative Institutional Development in the Soviet Southern Tier," Ph.D., 1988
Cynthia Jacobsen, "Intif~da Poetry: The First Six Months of the Palestinian Uprising, M.A., 1989
*Jeanne Kinney, Non-Muslims under Muslim Rule:7th-16th Centuries, M.A., 1989
Tyrone E. Tisdale, The United States and Iran, 1951-1953: The Cold War Interaction of the National Security Policy, Alliance Politics and Popular Nationalism," Ph.D., 1989
*Muhssin Allahawy, "Non-Muslims in the Ottoman Empire," M.A., 1990
Alexander H. Joffe, "Settlement and Society in Early Bronze I and II," M.A., 1990
*Veronica Barajas, "A Historical View of Tribal and Ethnic Tension in Islamic Spain 710-1031," M.A., 1990
J. P. Dessel, "Craft Specialization and the Development of Social Complexity in the Chalcolithic and Early Bronze I in Canaan," M.A., 1990
Jill R. Krera, "The Iranian Revolution of 1978-79: Interpretations," M.A., 1991
Cynthia Romy, "Diwan al-Jadawil of Iliya Abu Madi," M.A., 1991
Ahmad Y. Nuristani, "Emergence of the Ulama as Political Leaders in Nuristan: The Intensification of Islamic Identity in Waigal," Ph.D., 1991
*Elizabeth M. Sharpe, "Into the Realm of Smokeless Fire: A Critical Translation of al-Dam§r§'s Article on the Jinn from Hay~t al-hayaw~n al-kubr~, M.A., 1992
Hiroaki Watanabe, M.A., 1992
*Bandar Gh. al-Otaibi, The Battle of Hitt§n and the Leadership of Saladin, M.A.,
1992
*Gregory Platten, Women, Education and Social Change in Saudi Arabia," M.A.,
1992
Yasmin Hilloowala, "How the Medieval Woman Wielded Influence in the Affairs of State," M.A., 1993
*Isolde Nettles, "Ecstatic Religious Expression within Islam," M.A., 1993
Franak Hilloowala, "Kalilah wa-Dimnah through the Light of History: A Socio-Political Study," M.A., 1993
Philip A. Johnson, "The Desinentially Inflectional and the Indeclineable; the Indefinite and the Definite: Translation and Analysis of the Sections So Named of al-Alfiyyah of Ibn Mâlik as Interpreted by Ibn `Aq§l, M.A., 1993
Tom A. Jull, M.A., 1993
Abdulgialil M. Harrama, Libyan Arabic Morphology: al-Jabal Dialect, Ph.D., 1993
Daisy Flores, The Islamic Institution of Waqf and Its Role in the 19th & 20th Century Egypt, M.A., 1994
Kyoko Yamamoto, "The Short Stories of Sulayman Fayyad: Translation and Critical Study," M.A., 1994
Debi Zaatiti, "Socio-Economic Development in Oman and Its Impact on Fertility Rates," M.A., 1994
Susan Maneck, "The Death of Ahriman: Culture, Identity and Theological Change among the Parsis of India," Ph.D. (HIST), 1994
David E. Bakken, "Supporting Fault-Tolerant Parallel Programming in Linda," Ph.D. (C SC), 1994
Benjamin T. Hoffiz III, "Morphology of U.A.E. Arabic, Dubai Dialect," Ph.D., 1995
*Oula Mawas, "The Transformation of the Native Spanish Society under Islam," M.A., 1995
Michael J. Franks, "An Examination of U.S. and Soviet Involvements in the Civil Wars of Somalia and Afghanistan," M.A., 1996
Michael D. Link, "Water in the Agricultural Sector of the Jordan Basin: Transition to Demand Management," M.A., 1996
Patricia R. Bacalis, "Emirati Women of Dubai: A Different Model for the Transition to Modern Roles," M.A., 1996
*Hasan A. Abbas, "Imam Kashif al-Ghita, the Reformist Marji`, in the Shi`ah School of Najaf, Ph.D., 1997
*Tarek A. Mekhail, An Analysis and Translation of the Book The October War in the Military Balance by Lieutenant General Salâh al-D§n al-Had§d§, M.A., 1997
*Hassan A. Megahy, Islamic Economics and Interest Free Banking: The Case of Iran," M.A., 1997
*Ibrahim A. Naim, "Imam Musa al-Sadr: Life, Work and Accomplishments," Ph.D., 1998
Kenneth P. Lizzio, Saving Grace: Naqshbandi Spiritual Transmissionin the Asian Sub-Continent, 1928-1997, Ph.D., 1998
*Yasmin Hilloowala, "The History of the Conquest of Egypt, Being a Partial Translation of Ibn `Abd al-Hakam's Futãh Misr wa-akhb~ruh~, Ph.D., 1998
Philip A. Johnson, The Refutation of the Grammarians by Ibn Mada' al-Qurtubiyy: A Translation with Syntactic Analysis of 'B~b al-Ishtigh~l,' Ph.D., 1998
Peter Valenti, The Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan: An Analysis of Its Role in Goverment, Politics, and Society," M.A., 1998
*Mirna Lattouf, "The History of Women's Higher Education in Modern Lebanon and Its Social Implications," Ph.D., 1999
Andrew D. Schad, "Lebanon's Hizballah Movement, The Party of God," M.A., 1999
Ali S. Al-Showaish, "Establishment of a Manuscript Bibliograpphic Information Sharing Network among the Major Libraries in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia," Ph.D. (IRLS), 2000
Sandra A. Green, "Building Solidarity: The Process for Metropolitan Chinese Muslims, 1912-1949," Ph.D. (EAS), 1999
Dale W. Manor, AAn Archeological Commentary on the Josianic Reforms,@ Ph.D. 1995
*Franak Hilloowala, AAnalysis of Ibn Abi Usabi`ah=s `Uyun al-anba= fi tabaqâ al-atibbâ=, Ph.D., 1998
Hiroaki Watanabe, "Evaluating Competing Hypotheses: Qumran as a Case Study," Ph.D., in progress
Marwan Sadeddin, AA Study of Surat al-Rahman,@ Ph.D., 2000
Abdulwahab M. Abalkhail, Ph.D. (IRLS), A Survey of Job Satisfaction between Librarians at King Abdulaziz Public Library and Al-Imam University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 2000
Abdulhameed M. Alsulaiman, AAcademic Libraries in Saudi Arabia: A Comparative Study of the Performance of Their Information Services and Support Facilities,@ Ph.D. (IRLS), 2001
Harry S. Neale, Qalandariyyah: Antinomianism as a Sub-genre in the Quatrains of Farîd al-Dîn `Attâr,@ M.A., 2001
*Isolde B. Nettles, AMamluk Cavalry Practices: Evolution and Influence, Ph.D., 2001
Robert L. Wessel, M.A., 2002
Muhammad Al-Qudhai'een, ALinguistic Constraints in Arabic-English Code-Switching: A Syntactic Perspective,@ Ph.D. (SLAT), 2002
Nizar Ibrahim, AFeedback on ESL Writing: Can We Integrate Form?@ Ph.D. (SLAT), 2002
Matha Schulte-Nafeh, Ph.D., in progress
Courses Taught since 1965
Elementary Modern Standard Arabic (year)
Intermediate Modern Standard Arabic (year)
Intermediate Modern Standard Arabic, Intensive (summer)
Advanced Arabic (year)
Readings in Modern Arabic Prose
Readings in Classical Arabic Prose
History of the Middle East (CE 500-1800) (year)
Modern History of the Middle East
History of the Byzantine Empire
Egypt since 640
Islamic Thought (a General Education Course)
Oriental Humanities (year) (taught jointly)
South Asian and Middle Eastern Humanities (taught jointly)
Islamic Literature
Arabic Literature
Persian Literature
Middle Eastern Studies: Honors
Seminar, Middle Eastern History: Palestine
Seminar, Middle Eastern History: Nationalism in the Middle East
Seminar, Middle Eastern History: Arabic Science
Seminar, Middle Eastern History: The Golden Age
Seminar: Islamics
Asia in the World Today (taught jointly)
The Middle East and India (taught jointly)
Honors for Juniors
Honors for Seniors
Middle Eastern Humanities (a General Education course)
Professional Organizations
The Modern Language Association of America
The Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
The Middle East Studies Association of North America
Acting Executive Secretary, 1981-82
American Association of Teachers of Arabic
Executive Committee l969-72
Service to Department, College, and University
Department of Near Eastern Studies (since 1989)
Executive Committee 1991-92, 94-95, 96-97, 98-99
Curriculum and Staffing Committee 1990-2000, chair 1990-91, 94-99
Undergraduate Advisor 1989-2000
Undergraduate Studies Committee 2000-2003
Graduate Advisor 1993 (spring), 1996 (spring)
Language Committee 1989-2003, chair 1999-2000
Peer Evaluation Committee 1993-94, chair 96-97, 98-99
Ad hoc faculty review and promotion & tenure committees:
Professor Nawid 1991, 93, 96
Professor Karimi 1991 (chair), 97
Professor Wright 1998
Professor Newhall 2002
Professor Hudson 2002
Professor Farwaneh 2003
Grievance Committee, chair 1991-92
Doctoral Program Review Committee 1990-91
Departmental Presiding Chairman 1989-2003
Ad hoc Graduate Requirements Committee 1992-93
Admissions and Financial Aid Committee 1992-93
College and University
Dean's Council of Advisors (Graduate College) 1973-77
Committee on Graduate Studies (Graduate College) 1972-76, 89-92
Campus Religious Advisors 1965-73
Folklore Committee 1977-82
Summer Orientation Faculty Advisor (SOFA) 1994, 95, 96
Faculty Advisor, Muslim Student Association 1965-73
Faculty Advisor, Lebanese Club 1990-97
Faculty Advisor, Sufi Society-MTO 1998
Medieval and Renaissance Committee 1982-88
Committee on Language Instruction and Research 1986-87
Committee for Second Language Acquisition and Teaching (SLAT) 1987-
present
Head Search Committee for NES 1993
Grade Appeals Committee 1991-93
Center for Middle East Studies, Governing Board 1988-89, 92-95
University-Wide General Education Committee (UGEC) 1998-2000 2003