Research Fields

• History of ideas and politics in the Middle East in the 19th and 20th centuries from a comparative perspective, especially in relation to Western and Jewish thought and with an emphasis on Islamic politics.

About

Lecturer, Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, Institute for Asian and African Studies

 

Selected Publications

Islam and Salvation in Palestine (Tel Aviv: The Moshe Dayan Center, 2001), 180 pp.

Identity Politics in the Middle East: Liberal Thought and Islamic Challenge in Egypt (London: I.B. Tauris, March 2007), 270 pp.

Ulama, Politics and the Public Sphere: An Egyptian Perspective (Salt Lake City: The University of Utah Press, 2010), 244 pp.

Martyrdom in Modern Islam: Piety, Power and Politics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014), 276 pp.

Arab Liberal Thought in the Modern Age (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020), 272 pp.

 

Selected Awards

The Golda Meir Fellowship Fund, 2006

Competitive grants: ISF (2003-2005, 2007-2010, 2013-2016, 2019-2022)

 

Teaching

Bachelor's degree courses

Egypt in the Modern Era

Religion and State in the Middle East

Protest and Revolution in Modern Islam: A Comparative Perspective

Religious Culture Contested: Sufism in Modern Times

Ulama, Sufis and the Challenges of Modernity

On Sacrifice and Death in Modern Islam: A Comparative Perspective

Arab Liberalism: Intellectual and Political History

Speaking Truth to Power: Intellectuals and Revolution in the Middle East

Between the Madrasa and the Market: Religious Knowledge and Chrisma in Modern Islam

Introduction to the Modern Middle East

The Muslim Brotherhood: A Modern Mass Movement

Modern Arabic Thought: Selected themes

Palestinian Islam

Global Jihad in Historical Perspective: Thought, Politics and Violence

Islamic Protestanism: An Unfinished Project?

Revolution and Society: Marginal People in Egyptian Cinema, 1952-1970

 

Master's degree courses

Continuity and Change in Sufi Culture: Selected Issues (together with Prof. Sara Sviri, Department of Arabic Language and Literature)

Theology and Power in the Middle East: Method and History

Liberal Thought in Egypt

Critical Arab Thought: Selected Essays

Methodological Approaches in the Study of Islam and the Middle East

Martyrdom in Medieval Islamic Thought

Zionism and Israel in the Arab Liberal Thought

Nineteenth-Century Salafiyya and Enlightenment

Autobiographies as a Historical Source in the Study of Modern Arab Culture

Historical Myths and Modern Politics