The Spread of Sufism and the Creation of a New Landscape of Sacred Sites in Medieval Syria

Date: 

Tuesday, March 10, 2015, 4:00pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

CMES, Room 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA

daphna ephratThe Center for Middle Eastern Studies is pleased to present

Daphna Ephrat
Associate Professor, Islamic and Middle Eastern History, Department of History, Philosophy, and Judaic Studies, Open University of Israel

Daphna Ephrat is associate professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern History at the Department of History, Philosophy, and Judaic Studies  at the Open University of Israel. Dr. Ephrat received her PhD at CMES in 1993. She is the author of A Learned Society in a Period of Transition (SUNY Press, 2000) and Spiritual Wayfarers, Leaders in Piety (Harvard Middle Eastern Monographs, 2008). She is also the coeditor of Religious Knowledge, Authority, and Charisma: Islamic and Jewish Perspectives (Utah UP, 2014), and coauthor of the Israeli Open University series Introduction to Islam.

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