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

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **March 10, 2015** 

 04:00PM - 06:00PM EDT 

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



 

 



 

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The 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*.

**Contact**: [Liz Flanagan](mailto:elizabethflanagan@fas.harvard.edu)



 

 



 

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