2006-2007 Program
JEWISH, CHRISTIAN, AND MUSLIM LIFE
UNDER CALIPHS AND SULTANS

	Name		Area of Research
	Yaron Ben-Naeh (S) Hebrew University Primo Levi Fellowship		Ottoman Jewry - Society and Culture
	Haggai Ben-Shammai Hebrew University Ellie and Herbert D. Katz Distinguished Fellowship		Scriptural Exegesis in Medieval Judaism and Islam
	Sagit Butbul Hebrew University Selma Ruben Term Fellowship		Judeo-Arabic Bible Translations in the Middle Ages
	Yossi David (F) University of Haifa Martin Gruss Fellowship		Imagination and Religious Identity in Early Medieval Jewish-Arabic Writings
	Jonathan Decter (S) Brandeis University Albert J. Wood Term Fellowship		Hebrew Panegyric, Jewish Court Culture, and the Articulation of Legitimacy
	Jamal Elias University of Pennsylvania
	David Freidenreich Columbia University Nancy S. and Laurence E. Glick Teaching Fellowship		Foreign Food Restrictions in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Legal Sources under Islamic Rule
	Gad Freudenthal (F) Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Primo Levi Fellowship		Science and Philosophy in Medieval Jewish Cultures
	Jessica Goldberg University of Pennsylvania		Merchant trade and trading networks in the medieval Mediterranean
	Miriam Goldstein Hebrew University Erika A. Strauss Teaching Fellowship		Muslim/Christian Influences on Judeo-Arabic Biblical Exegesis
	David Hollenberg (F) James Madison University Louis and Bessie Stein Term Fellowship		Jews and Christians in Medieval Ismaili Doctrine and Fatimid Policy
	Alfred Ivry (F) New York University Ruth Meltzer Distinguished Fellowship		Shi’ism and Judaism in the Middle Ages
	Milka Levy-Rubin Hebrew University Ella Darivoff Fellowship		From Ahd to Shurut: Interrelations between Muslim and dhimmi communities
	Gideon Libson (F) Hebrew University Moses Aaron Dropsie Fellowship		Maimonides’ Halakhic Writing and Muslim Law
	Aharon Maman Hebrew University Charles W. and Sally Rothfeld Fellowship		Rav Hal Gaon’s Kitab-Al-Hawi
	Charles Manekin (S) University of Maryland Rose and Henry Zifkin Teaching Fellowship		Maimonides’ Religious Development
	Vera Moreen Independent Scholar Dalck and Rose Feith Family Fellowship		Bridging Cultures: Two Texts from the Irianian Milieu
	Robert Morrison (S) Whitman College Martin Gruss Fellowship		Jewish Science at the Intersection of Islamic Astronomies
	Sarah Stroumsa Hebrew University Louis Apfelbaum and Hortense Braunstein Apfelbaum Fellowship		New Perspectives in the Philosophy of al-Andalus
	Daniel Tsadik (S) Hebrew University Moses Aaron Dropsie Fellowship		Shi’ite and Jewish Scriptural Exegesis of Jewish  Texts in Pre-Modern Iran
	Yaron Tsur (F) Tel-Aviv University Maurice Amado Foundation Fellowship		Jewish Inclusion in Algerian and Tunisian Networks
	SHORT-TERM FELLOW
	Daniel J. Lasker Ben Gurion University		A History of Karaite Philosophy
	ADJUNCT FELLOWS
	Ross Brann Cornell University		Mark Cohen Princeton University
	Patricia Crone Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton		Raymond Scheindlin Jewish Theological Seminary, NY
	Abraham Udovitch Princeton University		Lucette Valensi Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
	Moshe Sokolow Yeshiva University