Jewish Studies in the Arab World

An academic workshop organized by Baber Johansen, Director, CMES; Professor of Islamic Religious Studies, Harvard Divinity School.

Speakers

Abdelkrim Boufarra, Professor of Modern Hebrew, University of Mohamed I, Oujda, Morocco
"Jewish Studies at the Moroccan University: the Situation and the Perspectives"

Ahmed Chahlane, Professor Emeritus, University Mohamed V, Rabat, Morocco; and, Director, Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (ALECSO)
"Islamic-Jewish Intellectual Interaction in the Muslim West (Andalusia and Morocco): From Bahya ibn Paquda al-Saraqusti to Ibn Rushd al-Qurtubi"

Mark R. Cohen, Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Department of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University
"The Interplay of Jewish and Islamic/Arabic Studies: The Cairo Geniza"

Mohamed Hawary, Professor of Religious Jewish Thought and Comparative Religions, Department of Hebrew Studies, Faculty of Arts, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
"Hebrew and Jewish Studies at Egyptian Universities"

Susan Miller, Professor, Department of History, University of California, Davis
"Jewish Studies in Morocco in the Aftermath of 'Truth and Reconciliation'"

Walid Saleh, Associate Professor, Department and Centre for the Study of Religion, Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, University of Toronto
"Al-Biqa`i and His Encounter with the Bible: On the Presence of the Bible in the Islamic Religious Imagination"
 

Discussants

Shaye Cohen, Nathan Littauer Professor of Hebrew Literature and Philosophy, Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations, Harvard University

Jonathan P. Decter, Associate Professor, Edmond J. Safra Professor of Sephardic Studies, Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, Brandeis University

William Granara, Professor of the Practice of Arabic on the Gordon Gray Endowment, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Director of Modern Languages Program, Director of Moroccan Studies Program

Raymond Scheindlin, Professor of Medieval Hebrew Literature, Director of the Shalom Spiegel Institute of Medieval Hebrew Poetry, The Jewish Theological Seminary, New York, NY

Please click here to download the full program.

Contact: Elizabeth Flanagan
Sponsors: Organized by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies with additional generous support from the Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard University and the Alan M. and Katherine P. Stroock Fund for Innovative Research in Judaica.

As a Title VI National Resource Center, CMES is partially funding this program with U.S. Department of Education grant funds. The content of this program does not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the U.S. Department of Education.