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Abdelwahab Meddeb (editor)
He has taught comparative literature at the Université Paris Ouest-Nanterre–
La Défense and has been a visiting professor at Yale University, the University of
Geneva, and the Free University of Berlin. He is the author, notably, of Talismano
(Christian Bourgois, 1979); Tombeau d’Ibn Arabi (Fata Morgana, 1987); La maladie
de l’Islam (Seuil, 2002); L’exil occidental (Albin Michel, 2005); and Pari de civilisation (Seuil, 2009). As director of the review Dédale, he devoted a double issue to
Jerusalem, Multiple Jérusalem 3–4 (1996). He produces the radio program Cultures
d’Islam on France-Culture.
Benjamin Stora (editor)
Professor at the Université Paris-8 and at the Institut National des Langues et
Civilisations Orientales (INALCO), he has been a visiting professor at New York
University and at the Free University of Berlin. A specialist in the history of the
Maghreb, he has published, notably, La gangrène et l’oubli: Mémoire de la guerre
d’Algérie (1991) and Imaginaires de guerre: Algérie-Vietnam (1998), both published
by La Découverte; Algérie-Maroc: Histoires parallèles (Maisonneuve et Larose, 2003);
and Les trois exils des Juifs d’Algérie (2006) and Voyages en post-colonies: Viêt-nam
Algérie Maroc (2012), both published by Stock.
Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi
Director of Studies at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE-Sorbonne) and
a specialist in the history of Qur’anic exegesis and classical Islamic theology, he is the
author of The Divine Guide in Early Shi’ism: The Sources of Esotericism in Islam (State
University of New York Press, 1994); La religion discrète: Croyances et pratiques spirituelles dans l’Islam Shi’ite (Vrin, 2006); and Le Coran silencieux et le Coran parlant:
Sources scriptuaires de l’islam entre histoire et ferveur (CNRS Éditions, 2011), among
others. He also edited Dictionnaire du Coran (Robert Laffont, 2006).
Jean Baumgarten
Research Director at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), he has
taught at École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris. His work
focuses on early Yiddish literature and the cultural history of the Ashkenazi world.
He has published, most notably, Naissance du hassidisme (Albin Michel, 2006) and
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Le peuple des livres: Les lectures populaires dans la société ashkénaze,
(Albin Michel, 2010).
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Denis Charbit
A lecturer in political science at the Open University of Israel, he is the author
of Sionismes: Textes fondamentaux (Albin Michel, 1998); Qu’est-ce que le Sionisme?
(Albin Michel, 2007); and Les intellectuels Français face à Israël (Éditions de l’Éclat,
2009).
Mark R. Cohen
Mark R. Cohen is Khedouri A. Zilkha Professor of Jewish Civilization in the Near
East at Princeton University. His publications include Under Crescent and Cross: The
Jews in the Middle Ages (Princeton University Press, 1994; revised edition 2008) and
The Voice of the Poor in the Middle Ages: An Anthology of Documents from the Cairo
Geniza (Princeton University Press, 2005).
Jocelyne Dakhlia
Director of Studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS)
in Paris and a specialist in the historical anthropology of the Maghreb and Islam
in the Mediterranean, she is the author of Divan des rois (Aubier, 1998); Trames de
langues: Usages et métissages linquistiques au Maghreb (Maisonneuve et Larose, 2004);
Islamicités (PUF, 2005); L’Empire des passions (Aubier, 2005); Lingua Franca (Actes
Sud, 2008); and Les Musulmans dans l’histoire de l’Europe, vol. I: Une intégration
invisible (Albin Michel, 2011).
Gad Freudenthal
Director of Research Emeritus at CNRS and professor at the University of Geneva,
he is the author of Aristotle’s Theory of Material Substance (Oxford University Press,
1999) and Science in the Medieval Hebrew and Arabic Traditions (Ashgate Publishing,
2005). He also has edited several books, including Studies on Gersonides: A
Fourteenth-Century Jewish Philosopher-Scientist (Brill, 1992); Studies on Steinschneider
(with Reimund Leicht) (Brill, 2011); and Science in Medieval Jewish Cultures
(Cambridge University Press, 2012). He is the editor of the journal Aleph: Historical
Studies in Science and Judaism, founded in 2001.
Sylvie Anne Goldberg
Director of Studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in
Paris (Centre for Jewish Studies at the Centre for Historical Research), researcher at
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the Centre Marc-Bloch (Berlin), and a visiting professor at the Hebrew University of
Jerusalem (Israel) and the University of Pennsylvania, she is the author of numerous
books on the history of Judaism, including La Clepsydre I: Essai sur la pluralité des
temps dans le Judaïsme (Albin Michel, 2000) and La Clepsydre II: Temps de Jérusalem,
temps de Babylone (Albin Michel, 2004). She also edited the French edition of the
Dictionnaire encyclopédique du Judaïsme (Robert Laffont—Éditions du Cerf, 1996).
Mohammed Kenbib
A historian and professor at University Mohammed-V in Rabat (Morocco), he is the
author of numerous books and articles, including his dissertation, published as Juifs
et Musulmans au Maroc, 1859–1948 (1994); Les protégés (1996); and Temps present
et fonctions de l’historien (2009), all published by University Mohammed-V in Rabat.
He also contributed to the Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World (Brill, 2010).
He has been a visiting professor at the University Paris-I (Panthéon-Sorbonne), the
University of Oxford, and a number of American universities.
Elias Sanbar
Elias Sanbar, a historian and writer, has taught at the University of Paris 7 (Jussieu)
and at Princeton University. From 1981 to 2006 he was the editor in chief of the
Revue d’études palestiniennes, which he founded at Éditions de Minuit, and is also
the translator of the poetry of Mahmoud Darwish. He has been Ambassador and
Permanent Observer of Palestine to UNESCO since January 2006. His many works
include Le bien des absents (Actes Sud, 2001); Figures du Palestinien: Identité des origines, identité de devenir (Gallimard, 2004); and Dictionnaire amoureux de la Palestine
(Plon, 2010).
Gilles Veinstein (1945—2013)
Former chair of Turkish and Ottoman history at the Collège de France and director
of studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris, he
was editor of Le Paradis des infidèles de Mehmed Efendi (Maspero-La Découverte,
1981); co-editor of Histoire des hommes de Dieu dans l’Islam et le Christianisme
(Flammarion, 2003); author of Le sérail ébranlé: Essai sur les morts, dépositions et
avènements des sultans Ottomans, XIVe–XIXe siècles (Fayard, 2003) ; and co-author,
with John Toland and Henry Laurens, of Europe in the Islamic World: A History
(Princeton University Press, 2013).
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