About

Simcha Emanuel (born in Jerusalem, 1957), is a Professor in the Department of Talmud at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and holds the Ludwig Jesselson Chair of Codicology and Paleography. Emanuel is a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

Selected Publications

1. Simcha Emanuel (2006), Fragments of the Tablets: Lost Books of the Tosaphists, Magnes Press, Jerusalem (387 pp.; in Hebrew)

2. Simcha Emanuel (2012), Responsa of Rabbi Me'ir of Rothenburg and his Colleagues, World Union of Jewish Studies: The Rabbi David Moses and Amalia Rosen Foundation, Jerusalem (two volumes, 1251 pp.; in Hebrew).

3. Simcha Emanuel (2015-2019), Hidden Treasures from Europe, Mekize Nirdamim Press, Jerusalem (two volumes; 501 + 408 pp.; in Hebrew).

4. Simcha Emanuel (2021), The Crown of the Wise, Magnes Press, Jerusalem (230 pp.; in Hebrew).

5. Simcha Emanuel (2011), 'Pregnancy without Sexual Relations in Medieval Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Thought', Journal of Jewish Studies, 62, pp. 105-120.

Selected Awards

The Council for Higher Education Yigal Alon Fellowship (1996-1998).

Polonsky Prize for Creativity and Originality in the Humanistic Disciplines (The Hebrew University, 2009).

Rav Kook Prize for Talmud Research (Tel Aviv Municipality, 2012).

About

Dr. Amir Engel is a lecturer in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem German department. He studied philosophy, literature and culture-studies at the Hebrew University and completed his PhD at the German studies department at Stanford University, California, USA. Subsequently, Engel taught and conducted research at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. His main topics of interest include German Romanticism and German postwar literature and culture, theories of myth, literature and philosophy and history of culture. He is also interested in intercultural transference, Jewish German culture, and German 20th century intellectual history. He has written a book about Gershom Scholem and has published articles about Hannah Arendt, Paul Celan, Martin Buber, Jacob Taubes, Salomon Maimon and others.

Selected Publications

Amir Engel, Gershom Scholem: An Intellectual Biography (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017) (Paperback edition Summer 2019).

Jacob Taubes, From Cult to Culture. Eds. Amir Engel and Charlotte Fonrobert, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010, 445 pp.

Amir Engel, “A Brave New Word: Hannah Arendt’s Postwar Reading of Kafka” in Kafka after Kafka Eds. Iris Bruce and Mark Gelber (Rochester: Camden House), 2019, 29-44.

Amir Engel, “Between Consequential Memory and Destruction: Karl Jaspers, Jean Améry, and the Intellectual History of Postwar West-Germany,” New German Critique 140, Vol. 47, No. 2, 2020, 1- 20.

Teaching

Bachelor's degree courses

Love and Romantics in German Literature (Fall-Spring 2018-9)

Literature after the Catastrophe: Postwar German Culture (Spring 2019)

Freud-Nietzsche-Marx: Meditations on a Changing World (Fall 2019)

Introduction to German Literature in the 19th and 20th centuries (Spring 2019)

Introduction to German Literature in the 18th and 19th centuries (Fall 2018)

The German Enlightenment (Spring 2018)

Introduction to German Literature in the 19th and 20th centuries (Spring 2018)

Introduction to German Literature in the 18th and 19th centuries (Fall 2017)
 

Master's degree courses

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About

Prof. David Enoch has served on the faculty of Hebrew University - on a joint appointment in philosophy and law - since graduatating from NYU in 2003.

Prof. Enoch works primarily about moral, political, and legal philosophy.

Selected Publications

For legal reserach: The Fattal Prize (2021), The Zeltner Prize (Junior 2005, Senior 2018), Cheshin Prize (Junior 2009).

The Michael Bruno Memorial Award, 2012

Taking Morality Seriously: A Defense of Robust Realism (Oxford University Press, 2011).

“False Consciousness for Liberals, Part I: Consent, Autonomy, and Adaptive Preferences”, The Philosophical Review 129 (2020), 159-210.

“Statistical resentment, or: what’s wrong with acting, blaming, and believing on the basis of statistics alone” (co-authored with Levi Spectre), forthcoming in Synthese, available here: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-021-03042-6

“Is General Jurisprudence Interesting?” In Dimensions of Normativity: New Essays on Metaethics and Jurisprudence (edited by David Plunkett, Scott Shapiro, and Kevin Toh) (Oxford University Press, 2019).

"Autonomy as Sovereignty, Autonomy as Non-Alienation, and Politics", forthcoming in             The Journal of Political Philosophy.

Selected Awards

For legal reserach: The Fattal Prize (2021), The Zeltner Prize (Junior 2005, Senior 2018), Cheshin Prize (Junior 2009).

The Michael Bruno Memorial Award, 2012

About

Prof. Fassberg teaches and researches Biblical Hebrew, the Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls, Aramaic dialectology, Northwest Semitics, and Comparative Semitic philology. He has served in several administrative positions at the university and is a member of the Academy of the Hebrew Language.

Selected Publications

Studies in the Syntax of Biblical Hebrew (סוגיות בתחביר המקרא). Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1994. 202 pp. (in Hebrew)

The Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Challa. Semitic Languages and Linguistics 54. Leiden: Brill, 2010. 314 pp. + XVIII.

An Introduction to the Syntax of Biblical Hebrew (מבוא לתחביר לשון המקרא). Biblical Encyclopaedia Library 36. Jerusalem: Bialik Institute, 2019. 286 pp. +  XXI.

Teaching

Aramaic of the Dead Sea Scrolls

Biblical Hebrew

Comparative Semitic Linguistics: Phonology and Morphology

Hebrew and the Semitic Languages

Hebrew Morphology

Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls

History of the Hebrew Language (from Its Origins to the End of the Amoraic Period)

Introduction to Aramaic (Parts I and II)

Language of Biblical Poetry

Language of the Book of Job

Late Western Aramaic

Old Aramaic Inscriptions

Phoenician and Punic Inscriptions

Ugaritic

Western Neo-Aramaic

About

Prof. Miriam Frenkel is professor in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s  Department of Jewish History and the Institute of History. She is The Menahem Ben Sasson Chair in Judaism and Islam through the Ages, head of the Institute of History, and Vice President of the Society for Judeo-Arabic Studies [SJAS].

Selected Publications

Miriam Frenkel, `The Compassionate and Benevolent`: Jewish Ruling Elites in the Medieval Islamicate World, Berlin, De Gruyter, 2021

Miriam Frenkel (ed.), The Jews in Medieval Egypt, Boston, ASP, 2021

Miriam Frenkel. Alison Salvesen, Sarah Pierce (eds.), Israel in Egypt, Leiden, Brill, 2020

Teaching

Bachelor's degree courses

Portraits of Conspicuous Figures in Medieval Jewish History in the Lands of Islam

The Jews of Islam: Historical and Social Perspectives

Tutorial teaching for outstanding undergraduate students at the School for History

Introduction to Medieval Jewish History (Cornerstones Program)

Jews and Judaism in Medieval Islamic Lands

Introduction to Jewish Medieval History in the Lands of Islam; Jewish Marginal Groups and Individuals in the Medieval Lands of Islam 

In the Footsteps of Travelers and Travelogues in the Middle East

Daily Life in History (Cornerstones Program)

Master's degree courses

Literary Activities and Products of the Judeo-Arabic Culture

The Mediterranean as System, Idea and Vision

Jewish Material Culture in the Lands of Islam and Christianity

Jewish Ritual Poetry (piyyut)

Jewish Religious Life in the Lands of Islam

 Mysticism, Magic, and Messianism among the Jews in the Lands of Islam

Basic Themes in the History and Culture of Mizrahi Jews

Jewish Material Culture in the Mdieval Lands of Islam
 

About

Dr. Yair Furstenberg is a scholar of early rabbinic literature. His research focuses on the emergence of the early rabbinic literature in the first centuries of the CE and the history of rabbinic law within its Greco-Roman context. In his publications, Furstenberg examines the development of Jewish legal discourse during the Second Temple and the early rabbinic period, as well as its relationship to  Jesus traditions. His current project aims to examine rabbinic legal activity into its Roman provincial context.

Selected Publications

Y. Furstenberg, ‘Jesus against the Laws of the Pharisees: The Legal Woe Sayings and Second Temple Inter-Sectarian Discourse,’ Journal of Biblical Literature 139 (2020): 767-786

Y. Furstenberg, “Provincial Rabbis: Shaping Rabbinic Divorce Procedure in a Roman Legal Environment”, Jewish Quarterly Review 109 (2019): 471-499

Y. Furstenberg, “From Tradition to Controversy: New Modes of Transmission in the Teachings of Early Rabbis”, Tarbiz 85 (2018): 587-641 [Hebrew]

Y. Furstenberg, ‘Imperialism and the Creation of Local Law: The Case of Rabbinic Law’, K. Berthelot, N. B. Dohrmann and C. Nemo-Pekelman (eds.), Legal Engagement: The Reception of Roman Law and Tribunals by Jews and Other Inhabitants of the Empire, Ecole française de Rome 2021, pp. 271-300.

Y. Furstenberg, Purity and Identity in Ancient Judaism, Indiana University Press (forthcoming). [Hebrew version:  Purity and Community in Antiquity: Traditions of the Law from Second Temple Judaism to the Mishnah, Magnes Press, 2016]

Selected Awards

The Mordechai Ish-Shalom Award for Best First Book in the History of the Land of Israel, for Purity and Community in Antiquity. Awarded by Yad Yizhak Ben-Zvi

Teaching

Bachelor's degree courses

Rabbinic Literature and the New Testament 

Introduction to the Mishnah 

The World of the Talmud: Study Culture 

The World of the Talmud: Cultural and Religious Contexts

The Temple in the Mishnah: Tractate Yoma

Introduction to Halakhic Midrashim

Mekhilta de Rabbi Ishmael: Halakhah and Aggadah

Introduction to the Tosefta

Master's degree courses

Tractate Neziqin: Between the Bible and the Greco-Roman World 

The Temple between Mishnah and Tosefta

Early Halakhic Literature: The Damascus Document.

 Marriage and Family in Early Rabbinic Law

About

Prof. Uri Gabbay's research focuses on cuneiform tablets written in the Sumerian and Akkadian languages.

Selected Publications

U. Gabbay, Pacifying the Hearts of the Gods: Emesal Prayers of the First Millennium BC, Wiesbaden 2014

U. Gabbay, The Eršema Prayers of the First Millennium BCE, Wiesbaden 2015

U. Gabbay, The Exegetical Terminology of Akkadian Commentaries, Boston/Leiden 2016

Selected Awards

Teaching

• Bachelor's degree courses
  • Beginner's Sumerian
  • Beginner's Akkadian
  • Sumerian and Akkadian textual courses
  • The Gods of Ancient Mesopotamia
     
• Master's degree courses
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About

Dr. Noam Gal (PhD, Yale 2012), scholar and curator of the arts in the camera-age, is a senior lecturer at the Art History Department, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Between 2013-2021 he served as Chief Curator of Photography at the Israel Museum Jerusalem. Gal's main exhibition projects featured the art of Richard Avedon, Berenice Abbott, Ron Amir, Ilit Azoulay, Tomoko Sawada, Roi Kuper, Micha Bar-Am, and Chen Cohen. Gal is the curator and author of A Modern Love, the first survey in Hebrew of modernism in photography. Gal's essays appeared internationally in Critical Arts, African Identities, The Art Journal, Photographies along with numerous local venues. His book project Compressions: Israeli Art in the Third Millennium is forthcoming in 2023.

Selected Publications

1. Noam Gal, “Joint Spectatorship: Experiments with Photography,” Photographies Vol. 15 (3), 2022 (forthcoming).

2. Noam Gal, “When Seeing Expires: Art History and the Work of Alison Rossiter,” Art Journal Vol. 81 (1), 2022, pp. 27-43.

3. Noam Gal, "Theodor Herzl Is Yael Bartana, Rereading Jewish History Through Photography, Thomas Pegelow-Kaplan and Ofer Ashkenazi eds. (Albany: SUNY Press, forthcoming 2022).

Teaching

B.A. courses

History of Light: Introduction to the Art of Photography

Cutting Contemporary Art

Great View: Introduction to the Philosophies of Art

Israeli Art in the Third Millenium

         M.A. courses

Regarding Now: Philosophies of Contemporary Art

Hang The Curator: Critiques of the Museum

Performance: Art Against Life

Reel Time: from Photography to Video-Art and Back

About

Jonathan Garb holds the Gershom Scholem Chair in Kabbalah, and lectures, beisdes his own department, in the department of Religious Studies.

He has lectured and researched, amongst other centers, in L'école des hautes études en sciences sociales (Paris), Johns Hopkins University, New York University and University of Hamburg.

Selected Publications

•           2020. A History of Kabbalah from the Early Modern Period to the Present Day. Cambridge University Press.

•           2016. Modern Kabbalah as an Autonomous Domain of Research. Cherub Press: Los Angeles (in Hebrew).

•           2015. The Yearnings of the Soul: Psychological Thought in Modern Kabbalah. The University of Chicago Press.

•           2014. Kabbalist in the Eye of the Storm: R. Moshe Hayyim Luzzatto. Tel Aviv University Press (in Hebrew).

•           2011. Shamanic Trance in Modern Kabbalah. The University of Chicago Press.

Selected Awards

2010:               President’s Prize for Outstanding Researcher (Pollack Family                         Foundation). Hebrew University.

2014                Gershom Scholem Prize for Research in Kabbalah. Israel Academy of              Sciences and Humanities.

2021 Polonsky Prize for Creativity and Originality

in the Humanistic Disciplines, Hebrew University

Teaching

Ba:

Writings of the Generaitons of Habad (2-5)

Religion and: Facism, Psychology, Social Theory, Political Theory, Embodiment

MA:

Readings of : Gate of Kavvanot, Leshem shvu ve ahalama

Niggun in Jewish Culture (taught with Prof. Edwin Serrousi)

The Doctrine of Evil in Kabbalah

About

Prof. Yosef Garfinkel was born in Israel. He studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Archaeology and Geography, his Master of Arts degree in Prehistory and Biblical Archaeology  and completed his PhD on the Pottery Neolithic and Early Chalcolithic periods. Since 1993, Garfinkel has been teaching archaeology of the Bronze and Iron Periods at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s  Institute of Archaeology. Garfinkel has been a visiting scholar at Harvard University, Yale University, Oxford University, Cambridge University and Kings College in London. Over the years, he has conducted excavations at various Proto-historic sites in Israel, including  Yiftahel, Gesher, Tel Ali, Sha'ar Hagolan, Neolithic Ashkelon and Tel Tsaf.

In 2007 Garfinkel began the excavations at Khirbet Qeiyafa, where, for the first time in the archaeology of Israel, a fortified city from the time of King David had been uncovered. Between 2013 and 2017 Garfinkel  excavaed at the biblical city of Lachish, the second most important city in Judah (second only to Jerusalem). Since 2015 he has been excavating at Khirbet al-Ra'i, another site in Judah from the time of King David.

Selected Publications

Y. Garfinkel, 2003. Dance at the Dawn of Agriculture. Austin: Texas University Press.

Y. Garfinkel and M. Mumcuoglu, 2016. Solomon’s Temple and Palace: New Archaeological Discoveries. Jerusalem: Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem & Biblical Archaeology Society.

Y. Garfinkel, I. Kreimerman and P. Zilberg, 2016. Debating Khirbet Qeiyafa: A Fortified City in Judah from the Time of King David. Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society.

Y. Garfinkel, S. Ganor and M. Hasel, 2018. Khirbet Qeiyafa Vol. 4. Excavation Report 2009–2013: Art, Cult and Epigraphy. Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society.

Y. Garfinkel, S. Ganor and M. Hasel, 2018. Footsteps of King David in the Valley of Elah. London: Thames & Hudson.

Selected Awards

Recipient of the Polonsky Book Prize 2006 for creativity and originality in the Humanities for the

book Dance at the Dawn of Agriculture

About

Prof. Raz Chen-Morris is an historian of early modern science. He studied at the Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas at Tel Aviv University. Chen-Morris is currently the academic director of the Martin Buber Society of Fellows.

Selected Publications

Ofer Gal and Raz Chen-Morris, Baroque Science. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2013

Raz Chen-Morris, Measuring Shadows: Kepler's Optics of Invisibility. Pennsylvania State University Press, 2016.

Ofer Gal  and Raz Chen-Morris, “Baroque Optics and the Disappearance of the Observer: From Kepler’s Optics to Descartes’ Doubt.”  Journal of the History of Ideas, 71:2, 2010, pp. 191-218

Raz Chen-Morris, "Geometry and the Making of Utopian Knowledge in Early Modern Europe". Nuncius 35 (2020) 387–412.

Raz Chen-Morris, “The Fall of Icarus and Kepler’s Observations- Forbidden Knowledge, Curiosity and the Birth of New Science in the Seventeeth Century”. History 31-32 (2014) 105-138.

רז חן-מוריס, "נפילתו של איקרוס ותצפיותיו של קפלר -ידע אסור, סקרנות ולידתו של המדע החדש במאה השבע עשרה", היסטוריה 31-32 (תשע"ד), עמ' 105-138

Selected Awards

2006-2009-The Australian Research Council–supported project - The Imperfection of the Universe (DP0664046)

The Selma V. Forkosch Prize for the best article published in the Journal of the History of Ideas for 2010

2010-2011-Excellent lecturer award for distinguished teaching achievements, Bar Ilan University

2020-2023-ISRAEL SCIENCE FOUNDATION (grant No. 312/20): Geometry and the Making of Geometrical Knowledge in Early Modern Europe.

Teaching

Bachelor's degree courses

Introduction to the history of early modern Europe

An intellectual history of science (part A): from Copernicus to Enlightenment

An intellectual history of science (part  B): from Newton to Freud

Continuity and Change in Scientific Thought from the Late Middle Ages to the 17th Century

HISTORIOGRAPHIC TEXTS - GREAT HISTORIC BOOKS

Places of scientific knowledge in early modern Europe

Astrology and Astronomy in the Renaissance

Science and Religion in the 17th Century

Humanism, Art and Science in the Renaissance

Sovereignty and Knowledge in the Age of Baroque

Master's degree courses

The Scientific Revolution of the 17th Century - A Global Perspective

The Sense of Sight from the Age of Cathedrals to the Baroque

About

Leore Grosman is Professor for Prehistoric Archaeology and the head of the Computational Archaeology Laboratory that apply tools from mathematics and computer sciences to modern archaeological research. As a prehistoric archaeologist she is engaged in research exploring the transformation from the hunting and gathering subsistence mode to that of farming, a transition that irrevocably changed the human world. The focus of her research is the Levantine Corridor, and she is the director of the Terminal Palaeolithic excavations projects at Hilazon Tachtit Cave, Nahal Ein-Gev II in Northern Israel.

Selected Publications

Grosman, L. 2016. Reaching the Point of No Return: The Computational Revolution in Archaeology. Annual Review of Anthropology 45 (1):129-145.

Grosman, L., A. Muller, I. Dag, H. Goldgeier, O. Harush, G. Herzlinger, K. Nebenhaus, F. Valetta, T. Yashuv, and N. Dick. In Press. Artifact3-D: New software for accurate, objective and efficient 3D analysis and documentation of archaeological artifacts. PLoS ONE.

Grosman, L., and N. D. Munro. 2016. A Natufian Ritual Event. Current Anthropology 57 (3):311-331.

Grosman, L., N. D. Munro, I. Abadi, E. Boaretto, D. Shaham, A. Belfer-Cohen, and O. Bar-Yosef. 2016. Nahal Ein Gev II, a Late Natufian Community at the Sea of Galilee. PLoS ONE 11 (1):e0146647.

Grosman, L., N. D. Munro, and A. Belfer-Cohen. 2008. A 12,000-year-old Shaman burial from the southern Levant (Israel). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105 (46):17665-17669.

Teaching

Bachelor's degree courses

Computational Archaeology

The Origins of Agriculture: Levant, America and China

Transitional periods in Prehistory

Human Prehistory

Levantine Upper Palaeolithic and Epipalaeolithic Entities

Scientific Topics in Archaeology

Research of Human Prehistory in the 21st Century

Modern Human expansion to Europe

Introduction to Prehistoric Archaeology

Topics in Levantine prehistory (seminar)

Master's degree courses

Field Archaeology

Developments of prehistoric closed spaces – to the Neolithic house

Computation Archaeology in 3-D

Topics in Prehistoric Archaeology (seminar)

Geo-Archaeology (seminar)

About

David Guedj is a member of the department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry. He is a historian of the Jews in Muslim lands, specializing in the culture and society of North African Jewish communities in the 19^th and 20^th centuries. His current research investigates the development and modernization of polyglot book culture in 20^th century Morocco.

Selected Publications

1. David Guedj, The Hebrew Culture in Morocco, 1912-1956, The Zalman Shazar Center, Jerusalem 2022. (Hebrew)

2. “Jeune Israël: Multiple Modernities of Jewish Childhood and Youth in Morocco in the First Half of the Twentieth Century”, The Jewish Quarterly Review, 112:2 (2022): 316-343.

3. “Double tendance: The Photographic Message in the Egyptian Jewish Youth Magazine L’Illustration Juive, 1929-1931”, Images: a Journal of Jewish Art and Visual Culture, 12 (2019): 56-69.

4. “Post-Second World War praise poetry, lament and a Utopian treatise in Morocco: historical literature on the theme of the Second World War”, Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, 17,4 (2018): 455-471.

5. “The Distribution of Heirless Books by the Jewish Cultural Reconstruction to Morocco”, Zutot: Perspectives on Jewish Culture, 15(2018): 63-72.

Teaching

B.A.

North African Jews from the late 19th century to the middle of the 20th century

North Africa's Jews during WW2

Education in Jewish society in MENA

M.A.

Issues in the history of the jews in MENA

Study tour through Jewish Morocco

About

Born in Israel in 1976, Prof. Harari received his PhD from the University of Oxford in 2002. In 2019, following the international success of his books, Yuval Noah Harari and Itzik Yahav co-founded Sapienship, a social impact company with projects in the fields of entertainment and education. Sapienship’s main goal is to make the public conversation focus on the most important global challenges facing the world today

Selected Publications

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

21 Lessons for the 21st Century

Sapiens: A Graphic History (Series)

Selected Awards

Honorary doctorate from VUB (the Free University of Brussels (2019)

 Polonsky Prize for Creativity and Originality (2012 and 2009)

The Society for Military History’s Moncado Award for outstanding articles on military history (2011)

Teaching

Technology and the Future of Humanity

The Laws of History

A Guide for Data Revolutionists

The Crusades and the Kingdom of Jerusalem

Humans and Other Animals

The History of the Future        

History for the Masses

The Medieval World    

Identities: Looking for Meaning

The World of Medieval People 

The Future of Humankind     
 

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