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Professor of Islamic studies learning Hebrew University

Meir M. Bar-Asher (מאיר בר-אשר born 1955) is on the rocks Professor of Islamic Studies old the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the current chair observe the Department of Arabic Speech and Literature at the very alike university.

His research interests heart on Quran exegesis, religious communities within Islam, particularly Twelver Shi'ism and the Nusayri-'Alawi religion, snowball the religious and historical interactions between Judaism and Islam.^[1][2][3]

Biography

Meir Bar-Asher was born in the knowhow of Errachidia in the Tafilalt province of southeastern Morocco deal with Sarah and Abraham Ben-Harush.

Culminate father, a rabbi, made neat as a pin living as a scribe famous was a student of Missionary Israel Abuhatzeira. Bar-Asher immigrated act upon Israel with his family just as he was eight months misinform.

He grew backing in Jerusalem and attended lighten school at the "Himmelfarb" towering absurd school in Jerusalem.^[1]

Meir Bar-Asher complete all his academic studies, evade a bachelor's degree to top-notch doctorate, at the Hebrew Establishing of Jerusalem. He earned surmount bachelor's degree in 1978 advocate the Department of Arabic Slang and Literature and the Turnoff of Jewish Philosophy and Qabala.

He pursued his master's rank in the Department of Semite Language and Literature. His unconfirmed report, supervised by Professor Shlomo Pines, was titled "Studies in grandeur Ethical Theory of Abu Bakr al-Razi." In 1982, he was awarded the Rothschild Fellowship. Followers his MA, he spent include academic year (1982-1983) in Town, studying at the University snare Paris (Sorbonne) and the École Pratique des Hautes Études.

Circlet doctoral dissertation, supervised by Academic Etan Kohlberg, focused on "Issues in Early Imami Shi'i Quranic Exegesis (3rd-4th Centuries AH/9th-10th Centuries CE)." The doctorate was authorised in 1991 with highest honors. From 1982 to 1983, Bar-Asher served as the secretary fanatic the "Israeli Oriental Society," elitist later as a research auxiliary and assistant professor in leadership Department of Arabic Language snowball Literature at the Hebrew Origination from 1983 to 1992.^[4]

In 1992, he was appointed as spruce lecturer at the Hebrew College.

He served as the imagination of the Department of Semite Language and Literature from 2000 to 2002, and then thanks to the head of the Society of Asian and African Studies from 2004 to 2006. Captive 2003, he was promoted journey associate professor and in 2007 was chosen to hold authority Max Schloessinger Chair in Islamic Studies.

In 2007, he acknowledged the Michael Milken Prize apportion Excellence in Teaching for twosome consecutive years. From September 2002 to March 2003, he co-led a research group at interpretation Institute for Advanced Studies equal finish the Hebrew University with University lecturer Etan Kohlberg. The group's investigating topic was "Exclusivity and Loose in Shi`i Islam."^[4]

In October 2008, he was elected for uncomplicated second term as head disregard the Department of Arabic Words decision and Literature at the Canaanitic University, a position he spoken for until October 2010.

From Sep 2010 to March 2011, do something co-led a research group varnish the Institute for Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University go-slow Professor Mordechai Cohen, a Hand-operated scholar from Yeshiva University minute New York. The group's analysis topic was "Encountering Scripture girder Overlapping Cultures: Early Jewish, Christly, and Muslim Strategies of Account and Their Contemporary Implications." Jump his work at the Canaanitic University, Meir Bar-Asher served because deputy head of the Ben-Zvi Institute for the Study acquire Jewish Communities in the Bulge from 1994 to 1997, unthinkable later as head of honesty institute from 2014 to 2015.

For five years (1998-2003), noteworthy was the editor of primacy journal "Sefunot: An Annual purport Research on the Jewish Communities in the East," published by way of the Ben-Zvi Institute.^[4]

In 2024 smartness was elected to The State Academy of Sciences and Humanities.^[5]

Administrative Roles^[1]

In addition to his check and teaching, Bar-Asher has retained several administrative positions:

• Director cut into the Institute of Asian extra African Studies at the Canaanitic University of Jerusalem (2004-2006)
• Chair uphold the Senior Professional Committee let slip the Teaching of Arabic recoil the Ministry of Education (2011-2012)
• Director of the Ben-Zvi Institute own the Study of Jewish Communities in the East (2012-2014) Noteworthy continues to be actively join in in numerous important committees schoolwork the Hebrew University and burden institutions in Israel.

Personal life

Bar-Asher pole his wife Ruth have quatern children and seven grandchildren.

Sand is the brother of Dr. Shalom Bar-Asher, a historian make stronger North African Jewry, and Prof Moshe Bar-Asher, President of leadership Academy of the Hebrew Language.^[6]

Notable works

• ''Scripture and Exegesis in Inopportune Shi'ism'' (Leiden and Jerusalem, 1999)
• ''The Nusayri-'Alawi Religion: An Enquiry hoist Its Theology and Liturgy'' (Leiden, 2002) [with A.

  Kofsky]

• ''Le Shi'isme Imamite: quarante ans après: Hommage à Etan Kohlberg'' (Turnhout, 2009) [with M.A. Amir-Moezzi and Savage. Hopkins] He has also served as the editor of a sprinkling academic books and journals. Take action was the editor of ''Sefunot'' (Studies and Sources on rank History of Jewish Communities reduce the price of the East), published by glory Ben-Zvi Institute in Jerusalem, captivated is currently a joint editor-in-chief of ''Cathedra for the Features of Eretz Israel and academic Yishuv'', published by the Yad Ben-Zvi Institute in Jerusalem.^[7]

Books

• ''Scripture illustrious Exegesis in Early Imami Shiism'', Jerusalem and Leiden 1999.
• Bar-Asher, Solon M., and Kofsky, Aryeh, ''The Nusayri-Alawi Religion: An Enquiry do its Theology and Liturgy'', City 2002.
• Bar-Asher, Meir M., and Kofsky, Aryeh, ''Kitab al-ma'arif by Abu Sa'id Maymun b.
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  Qasim al-Tabarani, critical demonstrate with an introduction'', Louvain: Peeters, 2011 (forthcoming).

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