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David Blumenthal is the Jay and Leslie Cohen Professor of Judaic Studiesat Emory University. He teaches and writes on constructive Jewish theology, medieval Judaism, Jewish mysticism, and holocaust studies.
Avraham Elqayam is a professor in the Department of Jewish Thought at Bar-Ilan University. His research interests are: the study of Kabbalah; mysticism; translation of poetry from Ladino into Hebrew; translation of Islamic mystical works.
Paul Fenton is Professor of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Département d'Études arabes et hébraïques, Université Paris-Sorbonne. His field of research covers the interaction of Jewish and Islamic cultures, especially in the areas of mysticism, philosophy and music.
Sara Sviri holds the Catherine Lewis Lectureship in Medieval Studies at University College London. Her fields of study include Islamic mysticism, mystical philosophy, comparative aspects of early Islam, the formative period of Islamic mysticism, and the mystical wisdom of Ibn al-ʿArabī.
Joseph is a professor in the Department of Hebrew Literature at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research interests are Medieval Hebrew poetry, and poetics and cultural backgrounds of secular and liturgical poetry.