Core Faculty

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Expertise: Comparative politics and Middle East politics

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

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

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Expertise: International relations and Middle East politics

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Expertise: Economics of the Middle East

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

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

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

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

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