I’m an Associate Professor of Islam in South Asia and the Middle East at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem where I teach in two departments, namely Asian Studies and Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies. My interests revolve around debates within and negotiations of the Islamic scholarly tradition in modern and contemporary Muslim societies. I’m particularly fascinated by the travel of ideas between West, Central, and South Asia and focus in my research on religious authority, the global history of the Iranian Revolution of 1978-79, transnational Shi‘ism, sectarianism and jihad, Islamic political thought, as well as Islamism and leftist movements in the Muslim world. Fieldwork over the last couple of years has led me to Egypt, Pakistan, India, Iran, Iraq, Tunisia, and Lebanon. My work draws on materials in Arabic, Persian, and Urdu.
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