# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/irfan-shahid
# Generated: 2026-08-15T12:02:51.879Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/irfan-shahid"
name: "Irfan Shahid"
slug: "irfan-shahid"
description: "Irfan Arif Shahîd, also known as Erfan Arif Kawar, was an American professor and scholar in the field of Oriental studies. Between 1982 and 2016, he was the Oman Professor of Arabic and Islamic Literature at Georgetown University. Shahîd also became a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America in 2012."
tagline: "American scholar in Oriental studies (1926–2016)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1926-01-15"
deathDate: "2016-11-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.85
  momentum:             3.999999999999999
  historical:           7.413932000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Ирфан Шахид"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B9%D8%B1%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%B4%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%AF"
    title: "عرفان شهيد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irfan_Shah%C3%AEd"
    title: "Irfan Shahîd"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "عرفان شهید"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irfan_Shah%C3%AEd"
    title: "Irfan Shahîd"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irfan_Shahid"
    title: "Irfan Shahid"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irfan_Shah%C3%AEd"
    title: "Irfan Shahîd"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D0%B0%D1%85%D0%B8%D0%B4%2C_%D0%98%D1%80%D1%84%D0%B0%D0%BD"
    title: "Шахид, Ирфан"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6069482"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump