Sami Makarem

Career

• In July 1963, he returned to Lebanon, to teach Islamic Thought at the Lebanese University. In 1964, he was appointed assistant professor at the American University of Beirut, teaching Arabic Literature and Islamic Thought.
• In 1970, he was promoted to the rank of associate professor at the American University of Beirut, and then he was promoted to the rank of full professor to teach Arabic Literature, Islamic Thought and Sufism. In addition, he held twice the position of Head of the Department of Arabic Literature and Near Eastern Languages: from 1975 until 1978 and from 1993 until 1996. He acted as a part-time professor at the Lebanese University from 1977 until 1981. Also, he was director of the Center of Middle Eastern Studies at the American University in Beirut, from 1975 until 1978.

  Works

Books

• Al-Shi'r al-'Arabi fi Lubnan Bayn al-Harbayn al-'Alamiyyatayn, 1957
• Ash-Shafiya, an Ismaili Poem Attributed to Shihabeddin Abu Firas,1966
• Shiraz Madinat al-Awliya' wash-Shou'ara, a Translation of A. Arberry's Shiraz Persian City of Saints and Poets, 1966
• Adwa' 'ala Maslak at-Tawhid, 1966
• Al-Islam fi Mafhum al-Muwahhidin, 1970
• The Doctrine of the Ismailis, 1972
• The Political Doctrine of the Ismailis; The Imamate, 1979
• Al-Hallaj,1989, New Edition, 2004
• Ashiqaat Allah, 1994
• Ash-Shaykh 'Ali Faris Waliyy min al-Qarn ath-Thamin 'Ashar 1998
• Lubnan fi 'ahd al-Umara' at- Tanukhiyyin, 2000
• Al Taqiyya fil Islam, 2004
• Al-'Irfan fi Maslak at-Tawhid, 2006

  Poetry

• Mir'at 'ala Jabal Qaf ,
• Daw' fi Madinat ad-Dabab
• Qasa'ed Hubb 'ala shati' Mir'at .