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Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi

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École Pratique des Hautes Études
Rainer Brunner is a professor at École Pratique des Hautes Études.
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Etan Kohlberg

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The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Etan Kohlberg is a professor in the Department of Arabic Language and Literature at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research interests are Islamic Studies, Sufism and Shi'ism.
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Rainer Brunner

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University of Freiburg
Rainer Brunner is a professor at the University of Freiberg. His research interests are Islamic intellectual history, especially modernism and modern appropriations of classical concepts.
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Binyamin Abrahamov

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Bar-Ilan University
Binyamin Abrahamov is professor of Islamic theology in the department of Arabic at Bar-Ilan University.
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Paul Fenton

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Université Paris-Sorbonne
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.
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Sara Sviri

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UCL
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.
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David Blumenthal

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Emory University
David Blumenthal is the Jay and Leslie Cohen Professor of Judaic Studies at Emory University. He teaches and writes on constructive Jewish theology, medieval Judaism, Jewish mysticism, and holocaust studies.
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Avraham Elqayam

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Bar-Ilan University
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.

Featured Story - Artist in Residence 2020/21 - Agi Mishol

Agi Mishol, one of Israel’s most prominent and popular poets, is the 2020/21 Artist in Residence at the IIAS.
We are delighted to share with you her recent poem, Corona in the Countryside II, which has also been translated into German and English.

Corona in the Countryside II

Now that death creeps round
and I’m peeled down
to a worn-out sweat suit,
down to lumps of cookie crumbs
and afterwards the striped toothpaste
that bursts from the tube