Professor Honerkamp is a graduate of the Al-Qarawiyine University of Morocco. He is also a graduate of the University of Aix-en-Provence, France where he completed his Ph.D. in 1999 after having earned a Master’s degree in religion from the University of Georgia at Athens in 1995. Dr. Honerkamp has brought his years of lecturing to international programs abroad in Morocco to the newly instituted Maymester in Morocco Program. In addition to teaching, he is involved in research in Arabic manuscripts, particularly those found in the less often referred to manuscript collections of Morocco and has published a number of studies on various Islamic texts.