Cursus universitaire
– 1981, Ph. D., summa cum laude, Arabic, Tel-Aviv University.
– 1972, M.A., Arabic and Political Sciences, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
– 1967, B.A., Arabic and Political Sciences, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Bibliographie
Articles
– "Al-Kasim Ibn Ibrahim’s Argument from Design", Oriens 29-30 (1986), pp. 259-284.
– "Al- Kasim Ibn Ibrahim’s Theory of the Imamat", Arabica 34(1987), pp. 80-105.
– "The Barahima Enigma", Die Welt des Orients 18(1987), pp. 72-91.
– "The Tabaristanis’ Question", Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 11(1988), pp. 16-54.
– "Al-Ghazali’s Theory of Causality", Studia Islamica 67(1988), pp. 75-98.
– "A Re-examination of al-Ash‘ari’s Theory of Kasb according to K. al-Luma‘ ", Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, (1989), pp. 210-221.
– "Ibn Sina’s Influence on al-Ghazali’s Non-Philosophical Works", Abr Nahrain 29(1991), pp. 1-17.
– "Fahkr al-Din al-Razi on God’s Knowledge of the Particulars", Oriens 33(1992), pp. 133-155.
– "Al-Ghazali’s Supreme Way to Know God", Studia Islamica 77(1993), pp. 141- 168.
– "Ibn Taymiyya on the Agreement of Reason with Tradition", The Muslim World 82(1993), pp. 256- 273.
– " ‘Abd al-Jabbar’s Theory of Divine Assistance (lutf)", Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 16(1993), pp. 41-58.
– "The Appointed Time of Death (ajal) according to ‘Abd al-Jabbar", Israel Oriental Studies 13(1993), pp. 8-38.
– "Necessary Knowledge in Islamic Theology- Some Notes", British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 20,1(1993), pp. 20-32.
– " ‘Abbad Ibn Sulayman on God’s Transcendence", Der Islam 71,1(1994), pp. 109-120.
– "The Sources of Mozne Ha-‘Iyunim Le-Sedeq Ha-Sar‘efim" (in Hebrew), Daat 34(1995), pp. 83-86.
– "Ibn Taymiyya and the Doctrine of ‘Isma", The Bulletin of the The Martyn Institute of Islamic Studies 12, 3-4(1993), pp. 21-30.
– "A Theory Like a Simile- Some Notes on the Rejection of Anthropomorphism in Saadia" (in Hebrew), Te‘uda 14(1998), pp. 19-31.
– "The bi-la kayfa Doctrine and Its Foundations in Islamic Theology", Arabica 42(1995), pp. 365-379.
– "An Isma‘ili Epistemology: The Case of al-Da‘i al-Mutlaq ‘Ali b. Muhammad b. al-Walid", Journal of Semitic Studies, XLI, 2 (1996), pp. 263-273.
– "Fakhr al-Din al-Razi’s Philosophical Justification of Visiting Tombs", Al-Masaq: Islam and the Medieval Mediterranean, 11(1999), pp. 109-120.
– "Religion versus Philosophy- the Case of Fakhr al-Din al-Razi’s Proofs of Prophecy, in Religon versus Science in Islam, A Medieval and Modern Debate", Oriente Moderno 19(2000), ed. Carmela Baffioni, pp. 415-425.
– "Fakhr al-Din al-Razi on the Knowability of God’s Essence and Attributes", Arabica XLIX, 2 (2002), pp. 204-230.
– "The Creation and Duration of Paradise and Hell in Islamic Theology", Der Islam 79 (2002), pp. 87-102.
– "Some Notes on Extremism and Moderation in Islamic Theology", Proceedings of the Arabic and Islamic Sections of the 35th International Congress of Asian and North African Studies (ICANAS), Budapest, 1-7 July 1997, in The Arabist – Budapest Studies in Arabic 21-22, Budapest 1999, pp. 67-72.
– "Maimonides and Ibn Sina’s Theory of hads: A Re-examination of The Guide of the Perplexed, II, ch. 38". Proceedings of the 7th Conference of the Society for Judaeo-Arabic Studies, Strasbourg 1995 (forthcoming)
– "Ibn Rushd and the Kalam", Proceedings of Ibn Rushd’s Congress, Cordoba 1998 (forthcoming).
(רצון ובחירה במשנתו של ר’ יהודה הלוי (התקבל לפרסום, אפריל 2003
– "Signs" and "World" in Encyclopaedia of the Qur’an, ed. J.D. McAuliffe, Brill, Leiden 2006, Vol. V, pp. 2-11, 551-554.
– "Theology", in Blackwell Companion to the Qur’an, ed. A. Rippin, Malden , Oxford and Victoria 2006, pp. 420-433.
Compte rendus
– "Hans Daiber, The Islamic Concept of Belief in the 4th/10th Century, Tokyo 1995", Ha-mizrah Ha-hadash (in Hebrew) 1998, pp. 210-11.
– "J.L. Kraemer (ed.), Perspectives on Maimonides", Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 23(1999), pp. 353-360.
– "M.E. Marmura, al-Ghazali- The Incoherence of the Philosophers", The European Legacy- Toward New Paradigms 4,6(1999), pp. 105-107.
– "Lobel, Diana, Between Mysticism and Philosophy: Sufi Language of Religious Experience in Judah Ha-Levi’s Kuzari". SUNY Series in Jewish Philosophy. Albany: State Univ. of New York Press, 2000, Journal of the American Oriental Society (forthcoming).
Ouvrages
– Al-Kasim Ibn Ibrahim on the Proof of God’s Existence: Kitab al-Dalil al-Kabir, E.J. Brill, Leiden 1990. pp. xiii+200.
– Anthropomorphism and Interpretation of the Qur’an in the Theology of al-Qasim ibn Ibrahim, E.J. Brill, Leiden 1996, pp. XVII+152.
– Islamic Theology- Traditionalism and Rationalism, Edinburgh University Press 1998, pp. XI+112
– Divine Love in Islamic Mysticism, The Teachings of al-Ghazali and al-Dabbagh, Routledge Curzon Sufi Series, London and New York 2003, pp. XII+190.
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