Sami Makarem
Lebanon, b.1931 - 2012
He received a Bachelor degree in Literature and Philosophy and a Master’s degree in Arabic Literature from the American University of Beirut and then obtained a Ph.D. in Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Michigan in 1963. He returned to Lebanon to teach Islamic Thought at the Lebanese University, and was appointed Assistant Professor at the American University of Beirut in 1964.
