أستاذة في قسم اللغة و الأدب العربي وإدارة فلسفة إسرائيل في الجامعة العبرية .

وهي المسؤولة عن الرئاسة في الثقافة العربية ،

 شغلت منصب عميد الجامعة في 2008-2012.

ترجع اصولها الى أوروبا الشرقية و جائت إلى إسرائيل قبل الحرب العالمية الثانية . نشأت في كريات بياليك ، وفي عام 1963 انتقلت مع عائلتها إلى القدس وحضرت المدرسة الثانوية.

تخرجت من الجامعة العبرية في اللغة العربية وآدابها ودراسات الشرق الأوسط (1977).

في 1976-1977 درست في قسم الدراسات الدينية في مدرسة Pratique de Otz-Atid في باريس .

في عام 1984 حصلت على درجة الدكتوراه من الجامعة العبرية (مع مرتبة الشرف).

عينت معيدا في الجامعة في عام 1984، وفي عام 1999 عينت أستاذا في عام 2003 كان مسؤولا عن الرئاسة للثقافة العربية.

بعد التفرغ عملت في جامعة فيلادلفيا ، وفي جامعة ماكجيل في مونتريال ، وفي جامعة هارفارد و CSIC في مدريد ، وفي جامعة أكسفورد و جامعة برلين الحرة .

في عام 2003-2006 عملت نائبة لرئيس الجامعة. وفي أكتوبر 2008  تم انتخابها رئيسة للجامعة العبرية ، وهي أول امرأة تخدم في هذا المنصب. أنهت دورها في أواخر عام 2012.

حصلت على التقدير الإيطالي لها في عام 2009. وحصلت على جائزة هومبولت للأبحاث في عام 2010. وفي عام 2012 ، تم انتخابها لأكاديمية العلوم في برلين-براندنبورغ.

يتركز اهتمامها حول التاريخ الفكري في العالم العربي في العصور الوسطى وخاصة في الفلسفة ، اللاهوت ، والتعليق و النقاش مع المسلمين و اليهود و المسيحيين. وهو يركز على نقل والمعرفة والأفكار بين مختلف المجتمعات الثقافية ، وعلى أوجه التشابه والاختلاف في الإبداع الثقافي لهذه المجتمعات .

من منشوراتها ( باللغة الاصلية ) :

كتب :

1. Dāwūd ibn Marwān al-Muqammiṣ‘s ʿIshrūn Maqāla (Etudes sur le judaïsme médiéval XIII, Leiden: Brill, 1989).

2. (with Daniel J. Lasker) The Polemic of Nestor the Priest: Qiṣṣat Mujādalat al-Usquf and Sefer Nestor ha-Komer, (Jerusalem: Ben Zvi Institute, 1996), 2 vols. (I, Critical Edition; II, Introduction, Translations and Commentary) [Spanish translation: El libro de Néstor el Sacerdote, tr. M. del Valle Pérez and C. del Valle Rodríguez, Madrid, 1998].

3. The Beginnings of the Maimonidean Controversy in the East: Yosef Ibn Shimʿon's Silencing Epistle Concerning the Resurrection of the Dead (Jerusalem: Ben Zvi Institute, 1999; in Hebrew).

4. Freethinkers of Medieval Islam: Ibn al-Rāwandī, Abū Bakr al-Rāzī, and Their Impact on Islamic Thought (Islamic Philosophy and Theology XXXV; Leiden: Brill, 1999; Paperback edition 2016). [Indonesian translation: Para Bemikir Bebas Islam: Mengenal Pemikiran Teologi Ibn ar-Rawandi dan Abu Bakr ar-Razi, LKiS, 2006].

5. (with H. Ben-Shammai, E. Batat, S. Butbul and D. Sklare), Judaeo-Arabic Manuscripts in the Firkovitch Collections: Yefet Ben ʿEli al-Basri, Commentary on Genesis, A Sample Catalogue (Jerusalem: Ben Zvi Institute, 2000; in Hebrew).

6. Maimonides in his World: Portrait of a Mediterranean Thinker (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009; Paperback edition, 2012).

7. Dāwūd al-Muqammaṣ, Twenty Chapters. The Judeo-Arabic text, transliterated into Arabic characters, with a parallel English translation, notes, and introduction (Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 2016).

مجلدات محررة :

1. The Collected Works of Shlomo Pines, vol. III, Studies in the History of Arabic Philosophy, (Jerusalem: Magnes, 1996).

2. (With M. Bar-Asher, B. Chiesa and S. Hopkins), “A Word Fitly Spoken:” Studies in Qur'ān and Bible Exegesis, Presented to Haggai Ben-Shammai (Jerusalem: Ben-Zvi Institute, 2007; in Hebrew).

3. (With H. Ben-Shammai and Sh. Shaked), Exchange and Transmission Across Cultural Boundaries: Philosophy and Science in the Mediterranean World. Proceedings of a Workshop in Memory of Professor Shlomo Pines, Jerusalem 28 February – 2 March 2005 (Jerusalem: The Israel Academy of Sciences, 2013).

4. (With Sabine Schmidtke and Maribel Fierro) Histories of Books in the Islamicate World. Part I (Intellectual History of the Islamicate World, 4: 2016).

5. (With Sabine Schmidtke and Maribel Fierro) Histories of Books in the Islamicate World. Part II (Intellectual History of the Islamicate World, 5.1, 2017).

مقالات :

1. “The Barāhima in Early Kalam,” Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 6 (1985): 229–41.

2. “The Signs of Prophecy: The Emergence and Early Development of a Theme in Arabic Theological Literature,” Harvard Theological Review 78 (1985): 101–14.

3. “From Muslim Heresy to Jewish-Muslim Polemics: Ibn al-Rāwandī's Kitāb al-Dāmigh,” Journal of the American Oriental Society 107.4 (1987): 767–72.

4. (with G. Stroumsa): “Aspects of Anti-Manichaean Polemics in Late Antiquity and Under Early Islam,” Harvard Theological Review 81 (1988): 37–58.

5. “The Beginnings of the Muʿtazila Reconsidered,” Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 13 (1990):265–93.

6. “Conversion among Jewish Intellectuals in the Middle Ages,” Pe'amim 42 (1990): 61–75 (in Hebrew).

7. “A Note on Maimonides' Attitude to Joseph Ibn Ṣadiq,” Shlomo Pines Jubilee Volume, Part II (Jerusalem Studies in Jewish Thought 8, 1990): 210–15 (in Hebrew).

8. “Shlomo Pines: le savant, le sage,” Journal Asiatique 278 (1990): 205–11.

9. “Al-Fārābī and Maimonides on the Christian Philosophical Tradition: a Re-evaluation,” Der Islam 68 (1991): 263–87.

10. “The Impact of Syriac Tradition on Early Judaeo-Arabic Bible Exegesis,” Aram 3 (1991): 83– 96.

11. “Avicenna's Philosophical Stories: Aristotle's Poetics Reinterpreted,” Arabica 39 (1992):183– 206.

12. “‘What is Man’: Psalm 8:4–5 in Jewish, Christian and Muslim Exegesis in Arabic,” in Blumberg et al., eds., “Open Thou Mine Eyes”: Essays on Aggadah and Judaica Presented to Rabbi William G. Braude on His Eightieth Birthday and Published in His Memory (New Jersey: Ktav, 1992), pp. 295–302. [A slightly modified version of this article appeared in Henoch 14 (1992), pp. 283–91]

13. “Qiṣṣat Mujādalat al-Usquf: A Case Study in Polemical Literature,” in J. Blau and S. C. Reif, eds., Genizah Research After Ninety Years: The Case of Judaeo-Arabic (Cambridge, 1992), pp. 155–59.

14. “On the Maimonidean Controversy in the East: The Role of Abu al-Barakåt al-Baghdådi,” in H. Ben Shammai, ed., Hebrew and Arabic Studies in Honour of Joshua Blau, Presented by Friends and Students on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday (Jerusalem, 1993), pp. 415– 22 (in Hebrew).

15. “Al-Fārābī and Maimonides on Medicine as Science,” Arabic Sciences and Philosophy 3 (1993):235–49.

16. “Ecritures alternatives? Tradition et autorité chez les libres penseurs en Islam médiéval,” in E. Patlagean and A. Le Boulluec, eds., Les Retours aux Ecritures: Fondamentalismes présents et passés (Bibliothèque de l'Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, section des sciences religieuses, Vol. 99; Louvain and Paris: Peters, 1994), pp. 270–93.

17. “The Blinding Emerald: Ibn al-Rāwandī's Kitāb al-Zumurrud,” Journal of the American Oriental Society 114 (1994): 163–85.

18. “Elisha Ben Abuya and Muslim Heretics in Maimonides' Writings,” Maimonidean Studies 3 (1995):173–93.

19. “On Jewish Intellectuals who converted to Islam in the Early Middle Ages,” in D. Frank, ed., The Jews of Medieval Islam: Community, Society, Identity (Leiden: Brill, 1995), pp. 179–97.

20. “Jewish Polemics Against Islam and Christianity In the Light of Judaeo-Arabic Texts,” in N. Golb, ed., Judaeo-Arabic Studies; Proceedings of the Founding Conference of the Society for Judaeo-Arabic Studies (Studies in Muslim-Jewish Relations, 3; Amsterdam, 1997), pp. 241–50. [reprinted in R. Hoyland (ed.), Muslims and Others in Early Islamic Society (The Formation of the Classical Islamic Society, vol. 18; Ashgate: London, 2004)].

21. “ ’Compassion for Wisdom:’ The Attitude of Some Medieval Arab Philosophers towards the Codification of Philosophy,” Bochumer Philosophisches Jahrbuch für Antike und Mittelalter 1 (1997): 39–55. [a revised Arabic translation was published as: “Al-shafaqa ʿalā al-ʿilm: mawqif baʿḍ al-falāsifa al-ʿarab fi al-qurūn al-wusṭā min tadwīn al-falsafa,” Al-Karmil 20 (1999): 129–47].

22. “Twelfth-Century Concepts of Soul and Body: The Maimonidean Controversy in Baghdad,” in A. Baumgarten et al., eds., Self, Soul and Body in Religious Experience (Leiden: Brill, 1998), pp. 313–34.

23. “Habitudes religieuses et liberté intellectuelle dans la pensée arabe médiévale,” in M. Abitbol et R. Assaraf, eds., Monothéismes et tolérance, (Paris: Albin Michel, 1998), pp. 57–66.

24. “ ‘True Felicity:’ Paradise in the Thought of Avicenna and Maimonides,” Medieval Encounters 4 (1998):51–77.

25. “Al-Muqammas, Daud,” Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy (London and New York, 1998), vol. 6, pp. 604–06.

26. “On the Usefulness of Faulty Manuscripts for Understanding Polemical Literature,” Pe'amim 75 (1998): 97–100 (in Hebrew).

27. “The Sabians of Harran and the Sabians of Maimonides: on Maimonides' Theory of the History of Religions,” Sefunot 22 (1999):277–95 (in Hebrew).

28. “Ibn al-Rāwandī's sūʾ adab al-mujādala: the Role of Bad Manners in Medieval Disputations,” in H. Lazarus-Yaffe et al., eds., The Majlis; Interreligious Encounters in Medieval Islam, (Studies in Arabic Language and Literature, Wiesbaden; Harassowitz, 1999), pp. 60–76.

29. “The Religion of the Freethinkers of Medieval Islam,” in F. Niewöhner, ed., Atheismus im Mittelalter und in der Renaissance (Wolfenbüttel, 1999), pp. 45–59.

30. “Citation Tradition: On Explicit and Hidden Citations in Judaeo-Arabic Philosophical Literature,” in J. Blau and D. Doron, eds., Heritage and Innovation in Medieval JudaeoArabic Culture — Proceedings of the Sixth Conference of the Society for Judaeo-Arabic Studies (Ramat-Gan; Bar-Ilan University, 2000), pp. 167–78 (in Hebrew).

31. Saadia Gaon: A Jewish Thinker in a Mediterranean Society (Jewish Culture in Muslim Lands and Cairo Geniza Studies, Tel-Aviv University, ed. M. A. Friedmann, Tel-Aviv, 2001).

32. “ ‘Ravings’: Maimonides' Concept of Pseudo-Science,” Aleph 1 (2001):141–63.

33. “Entre Harran et al-Maghreb: la théorie maïmonidienne de l'histoire des religions et ses sources arabes,” in: M. Fierro (ed.), Judios y musulmanes en al-Andalus y el Magreb — Contactos intelectuales (Madrid: Casa de Velázquez, 2002), pp. 153–64.

34. “From the Earliest Known Judaeo-Arabic Commentary on Genesis,” Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 27 (2002): 375–95.

35. “Islam in the Historical Consciousness of Jewish Thinkers of the Arab Middle Ages,” in N. Ilan (ed.), The Intertwined Worlds of Islam; Essays in Memory of Hava Lazarus-Yafeh (Jerusalem: Ben Zvi Institute, 2002), pp. 443–58 (in Hebrew).

36. “Voiles et miroirs: visions surnaturelles en théologie judéo-arabe médiévale,” in E. Chaumont and others (eds.), Autour du Regard: Mélanges Daniel Gimaret (Louvain, 2003), pp. 77–96.

37. “Saadiah and Jewish kalām,” in D. H. Frank and O. Leaman, eds., The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Jewish Philosophy (Cambridge, 2003), pp. 71–90.

38. “Philosopher-King or Philosopher-Courtier? Theory and Reality in the Falāsifa’s Place in Islamic Society,” in: C. de la Puente (ed.), Identidades Marginales (Madrid: CSIC, 2003), pp. 433–59.

39. “Sabéens de Harran et Sabéens de Maïmonide,” in T. Lévy and R. Rashed (eds.), Maimonide: philosophe et savant, (2004), pp. 335--52.

40. “Maimonides and Mediterranean Culture,” in C. Cluse (ed.), The Jews of Europe in the Middle Ages (Tenth to Fifteenth Centuries): Proceedings of the International Symposium held at Speyer; 20 – 25. October 2002 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2004), pp. 95–104. [= Europas Juden im Mittelalter, Beiträge des internationalen Symposiums in Speyer vom 20-25 Oktober 2002, ed. Christoph Cluse, Trier: Kliomedia, 2004, pp. 109–20.]

41. “Maimonides’ Auffassung vom jüdischen Kalām: sein Wahrheitsgehalt und seine geschichtliche Wirkung,” JUDAICA: Beiträge zum Verstehen des Judentums 61 (2005): 289– 309.

42. “Philosophes almohades? Averroès, Maïmonide et l'idéologie almohade” in: P. Cressier, M. Fierro and L. Molina (eds.), Los Almohades: Problemas y Perspectivas (Madrid: CSIC, 2005), pp. 1137–62.

43. “Was Maimonides an Almohad Thinker?” in H. Ben-Shammai and D. Lasker (eds.), Alei Asor; Proceedings of the Tenth Conference of the Society for Judaeo-Arabic Studies (Eshel Beer Sheva; Ben-Gurion University, 2008), pp. 151–71 (in Hebrew).

44. “The Literary Corpus of Maimonides and Averroes,” Maimonidean Studies 5 (2008):193–210.

45. “Ibn Masarra and The Beginnings of Mystical Thought in al-Andalus,” in P. Schaeffer (ed.), Mystical Approaches to God: Judaism, Christianity and Islam (Munich: Historisches Kolleg: Oldenbourg, 2006), pp. 97–112.

46. “The Politico-Religious Context of Maimonides,” in Georges Tamer (ed.), The Trias of Maimonides. Jewish, Arabic and antique culture of knowledge (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2005), pp. 257–65.

47. “A Literary Genre as an Historical Document: On Saadia's Introduction to his Bible Commentaries," in M. Bar-Asher et al. (eds.), “A Word Fitly Spoken:” Studies in Qur'an and Bible Exegesis, Presented to Haggai Ben-Shammai (Jerusalem: Ben-Zvi Institute, 2007), pp. 193–204 (in Hebrew).

48. “Maimonides: A Fundamentalist Thinker?” in A. Ravitzki (ed.), Maimonides: Conservatism, Originality, Revolution (Jerusalem: Zalman Shazar Center, 2008), vol. II, pp. 453–64 (in Hebrew).

49. “The Muslim Context of Medieval Jewish Philosophy,” in S. Nadler and T. Rudavsky (eds.), The Cambridge History of Jewish Philosophy: From Antiquity through the Seventeenth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University, 2009), pp. 39–59.

50. “Soul-searching at the Dawn of Jewish Philosophy: A Hitherto Lost Fragment of alMuqammaṣ’s Twenty Chapters,” Ginzei Qedem 3 (2007): 137*–161*.

51. (with S. Sviri) “The Beginnings of Mystical Philosophy in al-Andalus: Ibn Masarra and his Epistle on Contemplation,” Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 36 (2009): 201–253.

52. “Whose canon? A Reconstruction of the Philosophical Horizon of Jews in the Middle Ages,” in M. Ben-Sasson, R. Brody, A. Lieblich and D. Shalev (eds.), Uncovering the Canon: Studies on Canonicity and Genizah (Jerusalem: Magnes, 2010), pp. 24-37 (in Hebrew).

53. “Prolegomena as Historical Evidence: On Saadia's Introductions to the Commentaries on the Bible,” in C. Fraenkel, F. Wallis and R. Wisnovsky (eds.), Prolegomena to an Intellectual History of the Middle Ages (Turnhout: Brepols, 2011), pp. 129–42.

54. “Thinkers of 'This Peninsula': An Integrative Approach to the Study of Philosophy in alAndalus”, in D. Freidenreich and M. Goldstein (eds.), Border Crossings: Interreligiousinteraction and the exchange of ideas in the Islamic Middle Ages (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press; 2012), pp. 44–53, 176–18.

55. “Whirlpool Effects and Religious Studies: A Response to Guy G. Stroumsa.” V. Krech and M. Steinicke (eds.), Dynamics in the History of Religions between Asia and Euorope: Encounters, Notions and Comparative Perspectives (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2012), pp. 159–162.

56. “Philosophy as Wisdom: on the Christians' Role in the Translation of Philosophical Material to Arabic,” in H. Ben-Shammai, S. Shaked and S. Stroumsa (eds.), Exchange and Transmission across Cultural Boundaries: Philosophy, Mysticism and Science in the Mediterranean (Proceeding of a Workshop in memory of Prof. Shlomo Pines, the Institute for Advanced Studies, Jerusalem; 28 February – 2 March 2005 (Jerusalem: The Israeli Academy of Science, 2013), pp. 276–93.

57. “On Maimonides and on Logic,” Aleph 14 (2014): 259–63.

58. “The Muʿtazila in al-Andalus: The Footprints of a Phantom,” Journal of Intellectual History of the Islamicate World 2 (2014): 80–100.

59. “Conversions and Permeability between Religious Communities,” in Lukas Mühletaler (ed.), ‘Höre die Wahrheit wer sie auch spricht”: Stationen des Werk von Moses Maimonides vom islamischen Spanien bis ins moderne Berlin (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2014), pp. 32–39.

60. “ ‘The Father of Many Nations': Abraham in al-Andalus," in Ryan Szpiech (ed.), Medieval Exegesis and Religious Difference: Commentary, Conflict, and Community in the Premodern Mediterranean (New York: Fordham Press, 2015), pp. 29–39.

61. “ ‘Wondrous Paths’: the Ismāʿīlī context of Saadya’s ‘Commentary on Sefer Yetsira’.” Bochumer Philosophisches Jahrbuch für Antike und Mittelalter18 (2015): 74-90.

62. “Patricia Crone, 1945-1915,” Review of Middle East Studies 49 (2015):213-15.

63. “Between Acculturation and Conversion in Islamic Spain: the Case of the Banū Ḥasday,” Mediterranea: International Journal for the Transfer of Knowledge 1 (2016):9-36.

64. “Ibn Masarra's Third Book,” in: Khaled el-Rouayheb and Sabine Schmidtke (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Islamic Philosophy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016), pp. 83-100.

65. “Passagen: Zwischen Akkulturation und Konversion im islamischen Spanien,” in: Ulrike Vedder and Elisabeth Wagener (eds.), Konversionen: Erzählungen der Umkehr und des Wandels. Mosse-Lectures an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Berlin: Vorwerk 8, 2017), pp. 16-31

66. “Between ‘Canon’ and Library: On the Medieval Jewish Philosophical Tradition,” Intellectual History of the Islamicate World 5.1 (2017): 28-54.

67. “Single-Source Records in the Intercommunal Life of al-Andalus: the Cases of Ibn alNaghrīla and the Codoban Martyrs.” Intellectual History of the Islamicate World 6 (2018):217-41

68. “Early Muslim and Jewish Kalām: The Enterprise of Reasoned Discourse,” Rationalisation of Religion: Proceedings of the Conference of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Berlin 16-18 December2013, eds. Ch. Markschies and Y. Friedmann (Jerusalem and Berlin: The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities and de Greuter, forthcoming)

69. “Comparison as Multifocal Approach: The Case of Arabic Philosophical Thought”, in: Guy. G. Stroumsa (ed.), Comparative Studies in the Humanities (Jerusalem: The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, forthcoming).

70. “The Literary Genizot: A Window to the Mediterranean Republic of Letters.” Intellectual History of the Islamicate World 6 (forthcoming 2018).

71. “The Elegance of Precision: on Pines’ Translation of the Literary Parts of the Guide,” in Josef Stern and James Robinson (eds.), The Guide of the Perplexed in Translation: A history of the translations of Maimonides’ Guide and their impact, from medieval times to the twentieth century (Chicago: Chicago University Press, forthcoming).

72. “Philosophy”, in: Maribel Fierro (ed.), Routledge Handbook of Muslim Iberia (London: Routledge, forthcoming).

73. “Popularization and Its Price in Medieval Philosophy,” in: Marieke Abram, Steven Harvey, and Lukas Muehlethaler (eds.), The Popularization of Philosophy in Medieval Islam, Judaism, and Christianity (Turnhout: Brepols, forthcoming).

المقابلات والمحادثات المنشورة (قائمة جزئية) :

1.“Classical Studies at the Hebrew University: Past and Future,” Zemanim 117 (2012): 12-14 (in Hebrew)

2. “Hebrew and English at the Israeli Research Universities,” Ha-Ivrit 61 (2013):1-8 (in Hebrew)

3. “Reflections on Innovation: on the Ideals of Israeli Universities and Related Institutions.” Interviewed by Dong Xiuyuan and Vivian Sun, West Asia and Africa

4. (西亚非洲 ) 4 (2017):127-142.

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