CURRICULUM VITAE. July 2024

CURRICULUM VITAE. July 2024 Daphna Ephrat Professor emerita of Islamic and Near Eastern History Department of History, Philosophy, and Judaic Studies The Open University of Israel Personal E-mail: [email protected] Professional Education 1993: PhD Middle Eastern Studies and History; Harvard University 1986: MA (magna cum laude); Middle Eastern History and General History, Tel Aviv University 1982: BA (cum laude); Middle Eastern History; Tel Aviv University Fields of Research History of the transmission of Islamic learning History of Sufism and Islamic sainthood Religious associations and institutions in the medieval Islamic public sphere Religious knowledge, authority and charisma in medieval Islam Islamization and scaralizaion of space in the medieval Arab East Thesis and Dissertation • PhD. Dissertation: The ‘ulama’ of 11th-century Baghdad and the transmission of Islamic learning. Supervised by Prof. Roy P. Mottahedeh and Prof. Nehemia Levtzion. Harvard University, 1993. • MA. Thesis: Ottoman Egypt in the 18th century: as viewed by a contemporary Egyptian historian. Supervised by Prof. Ehud R. Toledano, Tel Aviv University, 1986.  Awards and Scholarship 2011-2014: ISF Grant (app. No. 46/11), Principal Investigator: In the Footsteps of the Prophet: Spiritual Leadership in a Medieval Islamic Setting- 1999-2000: Research Fund of the Open University of Israel 1995-96: Grant fellowship for participation as a research fellow in the project on the transmission of learning and tradition; the Center for Judaic Studies of Pennsylvania University Scientific Books Sufi Masters and the Creation of Saintly Spheres in Medieval Syria. ARC Humanities Press, 2021, xi + 146 pages, undex Spiritual Wayfarers, Leaders in Piety: Sufis and the Dissemination of Islam in Medieval Palestine. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008, xi + 218 pages, index A Learned Society in a Period of Transition: The Sunni 'Ulama' of Eleventh-Century Baghdad. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2000, xvi + 218 pages, index Edited Books Saintly Spheres and Islamic Landscapes: Emplacement of Spiritual Power across Time and Place, co-edited with Ethel Sara Wolper, and Paulo, G. Pinto. Leiden: Brill, 2020. xiii + 560 pages, index Religious Knowledge, Authority, and Charisma: Islamic and Jewish Perspectives, co-edited with Meir Hatina. Utah University Press, 2014, xiii + 327 pages, index Open University of Israel Books (in Hebrew) Jerusalem during the First Islamic Period (638-1099), co-authored with Yoram Erder and Meir Ben Shahar. 2016 Jerusalem in the Ayyubid and Mamluk Periods, co-authored with Meir Ben-Shahar. 2017 Introduction to the History of Islam, co-authored with Nehemia Levtzion and Daniella Talmon-Heller. 4 vols. 2000-2008 Ora Limor, Israel Shatzman, Iizchak Hen, Daphna Ephrat, Iris Shagrir, The Beginnings of Europe: Western Europe in the Early Middle Ages. 4 vols. 2001-2003. Articles in Refereed Journals Commemoration and Devotion in the Resurgence of Contemporary Sufi Communities in their Homeland and Westen Settings: descendants and followers of a medieval Sufi saint in Syria and Cambridge, Ontario." Journal of Culture and Religion (published online 04 July, 2024) The Shaykh and the Holy Space: The Creation of a New Sacred Topography in Medieval Damascus and Aleppo." Historia: Journal of the Historical Society of Israel 36 (2016), 37-62 (in Hebrew) Daphna Ephrat and Hatim Mahamid. "The Creation of Sufi Spheres in Medieval Damascus (mid-12th to mid-14th centuries).” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (Cambridge University Press) (January 2015), 1-20. "Purifying Sufism: Observations on the Marginalization and Exclusion of Undesirable Elements in the Earlier Middle Period (late fourth/tenth to mid-seventh/thirteenth centuries)." al-Qantara, XXXV (Jan. 2014), pp. 255-76 "The Shaykh, the Physical Setting, and the Holy Site: the diffusion of the Qadiri path in late medieval Palestine." Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 19: 1 (Jan. 2009), 1-20. "From Wayfaring Elites to Local Associations: Sufis in Medieval Palestine." al-Qantara, 27 (Jan. 2006), 77-104. "The Dissemination of Sufism and the Print of Islam in Medieval Palestine." Zemanim, 92 (2005), 8-16 (in Hebrew). "Muslim Reactions to the Frankish Presence in Bilād al-Shām," Al-Masaq: Islam and the Medieval Mediterranean, 15: 1 (March 2003), 47-59. "In Quest of an Ideal Type of Saint: Some Observations on the First generation of Awliyā' Allāh in Kitāb al-Tashawwuf," Studia Islamica 94 (2002), 67-85. Daphna Ephrat and Mustafa, D. Kabha. "Intensified Religious Fidelity and Higher Barriers: Muslims and Franks in al-Shām." Catedra 92 (1999), 49-64. "Learning in the First Century of the Madrasah in Baghdad: A Reconsideration of the Social Significance of Institutionalization," Harvard Middle Eastern and Islamic Review 3: 1-2 (1996), 77-103. Chapters in Refereed Books Daphna Ephrat, Ethel Sara Wolper, and Paulo, G. Pinto, "Introduction: History and Anthropology of Sainthood and Space in Islamic Contexts." In Saintly Spheres and Islamic Landscapes: Emplacement of Spiritual Power across Time and Place, edited by Daphna Ephrat, Ethel Sara Wolper, and Paulo G. Pinto, pp. 1-34. Leiden: Brill, 2020 "The Evolution of Spheres of Spiritual Domination and Sanctity in Medieval Syrian Settings: Hagiographical Narratives and Historical Legacies. In Saintly Spheres & Islamic Landscapes: Emplacement of Spiritual Power across Time and Place, edited by Daphna Ephrat, Ethel Sara Wolper, and Paulo, G. Pinto, pp. 35-63. Leiden: Brill "Conversion Tales in the Vita of Shaykh ʿAbdallāh al-Yūnīnī, 'The Lion of Syria' (Asad al-Shām)." In A Sourcebook on Premodern Conversion to Islam, edited by Luke Yarbrough Uriel Simonsohn, pp. 238-42. University of California Press, 2020 Daphna Ephrat and Paulo G. Pinto, "Sufi places and dwellings." In Sufi Institutions: A Handbook of Sufi Studies, chap. 5: 105-142, edited by Alexandre Papas, pp. 105-42. Leiden: Brill, 2020 "The Shaykh, the Followers, and the Public Sphere: The Case of the Khalwati Brotherhood in Israel." In Muslims in the State of Israel, edited by Meir Hatina and Muhammad al-Atawneh, pp. 311-331. Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 2018 [Hebrew] Daphna Ephrat and Meir Hatina, "Introduction." In Religious Knowledge, Authority, and Charisma: Islamic and Jewish Perspectives, edited by Daphna Ephrat and Meir Hatina, pp. 1-23. Utah University Press, 2014 "Spiritual Heirs of the Prophet." In Religious Knowledge, Authority, and Charisma: Islamic and Jewish Perspectives, edited by Daphna Ephrat and Meir Hatina, pp. 98-113. Utah University Press, 2014 "The Seljuks and the Public Sphere in the Period of Sunni Revivalism: The View from Baghdad." In The Seljuks: Politics, Power and Culture, edited by Christian Lang and Songul Mecit, pp. 139-157. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011 "Sufism and Sanctity: The Genesis of the walī Allāh in Mamluk Jerusalem and Hebron." In Mamluks and Ottomans Studies in Honor of Michael Winter, edited by David Wasserstein and Ami Ayalon, pp. 4-18. Frank Cass, 2006 "Madhhab and Madrasa in Fifth/Eleventh-Century Baghdad." In The Islamic School of Law: Evolution, Devolution, and Progress edited by Frank E. Vogel, Rudolph Peters and Peri Bearman, pp. 77-93. Harvard University Press: Harvard Series in Islamic Law, 2005 "Religious Leadership and Associations in the Public Sphere of Seljuk Baghdad." In The Public Sphere in Muslim Societies, edited by M. Hoexterm S.N. Eisenstadt and N. Levtzion, pp. 31-48. Albany: SUNY Press, 2002 Daphna Ephrat and Yaakov Elman. "The Growth of the Geonic Yeshiva and the Islamic Madrasa." In Transmitting Jewish Traditions: Orality, Textuality and Cultural Diffusion, edited by Yaakov Elman and Israel Gershoni, pp. 107-137. New Haven and London: Yale University Press Studies in Jewish Culture and Society, 2000 "The Advent of the Madrasa: A Real Turning-Point in the History of Islamic Education?" In Education and History, edited by Rivka Feldhay and Immanuel Etkes, pp. 101-123. Jerusalem: the Zalman Shazar Center for Jewish History, 1999 [Hebrew] Book Reviews Review of Stephennie Mulder, The Shrines of the ʿAlids in Medieval Syria," Edinburgh 2014, in Der Islam, 93/1 (2016). Review of: Jawid, Mojaddedi, A. The Biographical Tradition in Sufism, London 2001, in Jama`a. The Department of Middle East Studies, Ben Gurion University of the Negev Press, 12 (2004), 275-81 (in Hebrew). Articles in Edited Encyclopedias • Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia.J. Meri (ed.) Routledge, 2006: "Ibn al-Jawzi" (750 words) "Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi" (550 words) • The Encyclopedia of Islam, EI3 (3rd edition). Leiden, 2009-: Al-Niẓāmiyya Madrasa" (forthcoming), (2000 words) "Adud Din Muhammad b. ‘Abdallah" (150 words) Al-ʿAbbadi (500 words). Ibn Hubayra (500 words) • Oxford Encyclopedia of Legal History. Islam: B. Johansen (ed.) Oxford, 2010: "Al-Kalwadhani" (500 words); "The Legal Profession" (1240 words).