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Ausbildung und beruflicher Werdegang
1977 B.A. (cum laude), Hebrew University
of Jerusalem (Arabic Language
and Literature, Middle East Studies)
1976–1977 Elève Titulaire, École
Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris
(Sciences Religieuses)
1984 Ph.D. (summa cum laude), The
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The Hebrew University, Department of
Arabic Language and Literature,
and Department of Jewish Thought:
• 1984 Teaching Fellow and Lecturer
• 1990 Senior Lecturer
• 1996 Associate Professor
• since 1999 Professor
• since 2003 The Alice and Jack
Ormut Professor of Arabic Studies
2003–2006 Vice-Rector of the Hebrew
University
2008–2012 Rector of the Hebrew University
Hauptarbeitsgebiete
Philosophy and theology in Arabic in
the early Islamic middle-ages (8th–
13th centuries C. E.).
Medieval Judaeo-Arabic literature
Medieval polemical literature in Arabic
Medieval exegetical literature in Arabic
The transmission of ideas between religious
communities in the medieval
world of Islam
Mitgliedschaften und Ehrungen
(Auswahl)
Board, The Shlomo Pines Society
2006–2008 Board of Directors, Sikkuy,
The Association for the Advancement
of Civic Equality in Israel
2006–2008: Advisory Committee, The
Rothschild Foundation (Europe)
since 2008 Steering Committee, Intellectual
Encounters Project
2009 Italian Order of Merit O.S.S.I.
(Commendatore della Stella della
Soliderieta Italiana)
2010 Humboldt Research Award
2012 International Advisory Board of
the Alexander von Humboldt-
Stiftung
2012 Board of Directors, The National
Library of Israel
Veröffentlichungen (Auswahl)
Dawud ibn Marwan al-Muqammis's
'Ishrun Maqala. Etudes sur le judaisme
medieval XIII, The Polemic of
Nestor the Priest: Qissat Mujadalat
al-Usquf and Sefer Nestor ha-Komer.
Jerusalem: Ben Zvi Institute 1996,
2 vols. (I, Critical Edition; II, Introduction,
Translations and Commentary;
gem. mit D. J. Lasker).
The Beginnings of the Maimonidean
Controversy in the East: Yosef Ibn
Shim’on’s Silencing Epistle Concerning
the Resurrection of the
Dead. Jerusalem: Ben Zvi Institute
1999 (in Hebrew).
Freethinkers of Medieval Islam: Ibn
al-Rawandi, Abu Bakr al-Razi, and
Their Impact on Islamic Thought.
Islamic Philosophy and Theology
XXXV. Leiden: Brill 1999.
Saadiah and Jewish kalam. In: Frank,
D. H./Leaman, O. (eds.): The Cambridge
Companion to Medieval
68 Zuwahlen