Core Faculty

Expertise: Comparative politics and Middle East politics

Expertise: Jews of the Islamic world, medieval Hebrew literature, medieval Jewish studies, Sephardic studies, medieval Jewish thought

Expertise: Islamic thought, theology, law and jurisprudence; Arabic language (Qur'anic, classical and modern) and classical Arabic literature and poetry

Expertise: International relations and Middle East politics

Expertise: Economics of the Middle East

Expertise: Ancient, medieval and modern Jewish history and European intellectual history, legal and political thought of religious Zionists in the 20th century, relationship between law, religion and politics in Mandate Palestine and Israel

Expertise: Urban anthropology, infrastructure, religion, youth politics, Islamism, Arabian Peninsula Middle East

Expertise: Jewish thought, Jewish law and ethics, Israeli religion and culture and Zionist intellectual history, political thought and human rights

Expertise: Ottoman and Turkish history; charity and philanthropy in Islamic history; agrarian history; Ottoman Jerusalem and Palestine

Expertise: Modern Middle East history, modern Iran history, nationalism, historiography, comparative revolutions