Irfan Arif Shahîd (Arabic: عرفان عارف شهيد‎; Nazareth, Mandatory Palestine, January 15, 1926 – Washington, D.C., November 9, 2016),[1] born as Irfan Arif Qa'war (عرفان عارف قعوار), was a scholar in the field of Oriental studies. He was from 1982 until his death professor emeritus at Georgetown University,[2] where he had been the Oman Professor of Arabic and Islamic Literature. Shahîd was also a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America since 2012.[3]