Dr. John Andrew Morrow is a university professor, author, and research scholar. He has worked as an Assistant and Associate Professor at numerous universities, including Park University, Northern State University, and Eastern New Mexico University. In the Fall of 2011, he acted as professor of Advanced Spanish, World Literature, and Cultural Studies in Islam for the University of Virginia’s prestigious Semester at Sea program.

Dr. Morrow completed his undergraduate and graduate studies at the University of Toronto, where he received an Honors B.A. in French and Spanish, as well as an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Spanish American Literature. It was at the University of Toronto that Dr. Morrow studied the history of Muslim Spain, the kharjas, and Aljamiado literature, as well as the Arabic influence on Spanish and French literature. After completing his Ph.D in Canada, Dr. Morrow pursued post-doctoral studies in Arabic in the United States and Morocco. At all stages of his studies, Dr. Morrow has combined Hispanic Studies, Arabic-Islamic Studies, and Native Studies.

Dr. Morrow’s academic work has appeared in Intercultural Communication Studies, Sufi: A Journal of Sufism, The Humanities Journal, Romance Notes, The Canadian Journal of Herbalism, Texto Crítico, Alharaca, the American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences, Nueva Revista del Pacífico, LEMIR: Revista Electrónica sobre Literatura Española Medieval y del Renacimiento, Tinta y Sombra, The Canadian Modern Languages Review, and the Journal of Shi‘a Islamic Studies, among other scholarly publications.

Dr. Morrow’s journalism has appeared in Radiance Magazine, Jafariya News, Iran Daily, The Exponent, Revista Ariadna, Revista Árabe, The Iranian, al-Bawaba, Crescent International, The Message International, Mahjubah, Qué Pasa Magazine, Hispanos, Kauzar, and other publications. His poetry has appeared in Revista Oxígeno, Revista Voces, Los Lobos de Omaña, Divague, Escáner Cultural, Almiar, El Otro Mensual, El Cid, Le Message de l’Islam, Mahjubah, and Analecta Literaria, among other literary journals.

Dr. Morrow has contributed encyclopedia chapters on the history of Latinos in South and North Dakota for Latino America: State by State, edited by Dr. Mark Overmyer-Velazquez, as well as a chapter on the history of Arabic literature for The Cultural History of Reading, edited by Dr. Gabrielle Watling. He has also contributed chapters on César Vallejo and The Arabian Nights for The Literary Encyclopedia and a chapter on “The Impact of Global English on the Arabic Language” for Global English: Issues in Language, Culture, and Identity in the Arab World, edited by Dr. Ahmad al-Issa and Laila Dahan.

Dr. Morrow has authored, edited and translated a multitude of academic books, including: Arabic, Islam, and the Allah Lexicon: How Language Shapes our Conception of God, Shi‘ite Islam: Orthodoxy or Heterodoxy, Amerindian Elements in the Poetry of Rubén Darío: The Alter Ego as the Indigenous Other, El islam shiita: ¿ortodoxia o heterodoxia?, Amerindian Elements in the Poetry of Ernesto Cardenal: Mythic Foundations of the Colloquial Narrative, Humanos casi humanos, The Book of Unity: Kitab al-Tawhid, The Encyclopedia of Islamic Herbal Medicine, as well as Religion and Revolution: Spiritual and Political Islam in Ernesto Cardenal. Besides many other projects, he is currently editing Islamic Imagery: Studies in Sacred Symbolism and devoting most of his energies to completing a monumental, multi-volume work, on Shi‘ism in the Maghreb and al-Andalus.