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Name: Itzchak Weismann Date: 27/09/2016
CURRICULUM VITAE
1. Personal Details
Permanent Home Address: 528 Hateena st. Tal-El, Israel
Home Telephone Number: +9724-9929643
Office Telephone Number: +9724-8249780
Cellular Phone: +97254-2518513
Email Address: [email protected]
2. Higher Education
a. Undergraduate and Graduate Studies
Degree Name of Institution and Department
Period of Study
B.A.
University of Haifa History of the Middle East and B.A. Honor Program
1984-1987
M.A.
University of Haifa History of the Middle East Dept.
1988-1990
Ph.D. University of Haifa History of the Middle East Dept.
1994-1997
b. Post-Doctoral Studies
Name of Host Name of Institution and
Department/Lab Period of Study
Prof. Michael Cook Princeton University Near Eastern Studies Dept.
1998-1999
--------------- Oxford University, St. Antony’s College
2000
3. Academic Ranks and Tenure in Institutes of Higher Education
Rank/Position Name of Institution and
Department Years
Teaching Fellow
University of Haifa, Middle East History
1989-1997
Teaching Fellow
Emeq Izrael College 1990-1994
Teaching Fellow Tel Hay College 1994
2
Dr. Instructor University of Haifa, Middle East History
1998-2000
Lecturer University of Haifa, Middle East History
2001 -2005
Senior Lecturer (with tenure)
University of Haifa, Middle East History
2005-2010
Visiting Professor
Dickinson College PA, History 2008-2009
Associate Professor
University of Haifa, Middle East History
2010-
4. Offices in Academic Administration
Role Name of Institution and Department
Years
member The Faculty Council 2001 member Faculty examinations
committee 2006-2008
member Faculty disciplinary committee 2006-2007 member Faculty Curriculum Committee 2009-2012 member Executive Committee of the
Jewish-Arab Center 2009-2010
member Research Authority Council *2010-2013 member Post-Doctorate Committee *2009-2011 director The Jewish-Arab Center *2010-2013 Member of the Senate *2012-2014 Senate representative Board of trustees *2012 initiator and member Steering committee of MA
Program of Cultural Studies *2012
member Steering committee of MA Program in Peace and Conflict Management Studies
*2013-2014
member Steering committee of Post-Graduate Inter-University Program, Asian Spheres
*2014-
director Flag Course: Religion and State in the Secular Age
*2016-
5. Scholarly Positions and Activities outside the University
Memberships in Academic Professional Associations Years The Middle East and Islamic Studies Society of Israel 1999 Publications committee of the Middle East and Islamic Studies Society of Israel
2006-2008
Middle East Studies Association 2008- Council of The Middle East and Islamic Studies Society of Israel *2009-2011 Israeli Association for the Study of Religions (IASR) *2016-
3
Editorial Assignments Years Scientific adviser of Islam: An Introduction to the History of Religion, vol. 4, published by the Israeli Open University
2005
Editorial committee of the journal ha-Mizrah ha-Hadash 2007-2009 Founder and scientific editor of Crescent: A Series for Islamic Thought in Resling Publishing (for specific volumes see List of Publications)
*2010-
Editorial board of Journal of Sufi Studies *2011- Editorial board of volume in Memory of Prof. Nehemia Levtzion (See List of Publications)
*2012
Reviewing for Refereed Journal Years International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 2010 Catedra *2012 Hamizrah Hahadash *2016
Reviewing for Fund Agencies Years The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research - NWO 2009 ISF *2011 ISF evaluation committee member *2012 ISF evaluation committee member *2014
6. Active Participation in Scholarly Conferences
a1. International Conferences - Held Abroad
Role Subject of Lecture/Discussion
Place of Conference
Name of Conference Date
speaker The Shaykh and the Commander - The Naqshbandi Khalidi order in Syria during the First World War
Ankara 13th Turkish Historical Congress
4-8.10.1999
speaker External Influences and Inner Evolution among the Sufi Reformist Movements of Late Ottoman Syria
Erlangen, Germany
Third Conference on the Syrian Land: Processes of Identities and Ideologies
28.7- 2.8. 2000
speaker God and the Perfect Man in the Experience of ‘Abd al-Qadir al-Jaza’iri
Oxford 18th Annual Conference of the Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi Society
30.3- 1.4. 2001
speaker Shaykh ‘Isa al-Kurdi and the Naqshbandi-Mujaddidi Legacy in Twentieth Century Syria
University of Mainz
First World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies
8-13.9.2002
speaker Sufism and Brotherhoods in the Syrian Area: Religious Strategies
Turin The Role of Sufism and Muslim Brotherhoods in Contemporary Islam - An Alternative to
20-22.11. 2002
4
and Political Implications
Political Islam?
speaker Between Attraction and Denunciation: Ibn ‘Abidin’s View of Sufism
Murcia, Spain
4th International Conference of Islamic Legal Studies: Law and Sufism
7-10.5.2003
speaker Sufism without tasawwuf: A Naqshbandi-Related Response to the Islamist Critique in India and the Middle East
Bogor, Indonesia
Sufism and the ‘Modern’ in Islam
4-7.9.2003
speaker India and the Middle East: The Islamic Perspective
New Delhi India and the World- Crossed Glances and Relations
5-7.2.2004
speaker Sufism and the Middle Eastern State: Decline, Collaboration, Resistance
Yaoundé, Cameroon
Religion and Political Power
13.1.2006
speaker Between Communication and Terror: Islamic Fundamentalism in Socio-Historical Perspective
CEMA University Buenos Aires
Democracy, Fundamentalism and Nuclear Politics in the Contemporary Middle East
24-25.4. 2006
speaker Nu’man Khayr al-Din al-Alusi and the Rise of the Salafiyya in Baghdad
University of Helsinki
7th Nordic Conference in Middle East Studies: The Middle East: Diversity, Variation, Interpretation
21-23.9.
2007
speaker A Return to the Future: The Formation and Transformation of the Modern Salafi Discourse
Boston 43rd Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association
21-24.11.
2009
speaker Activist Religious Intellectuals and the Islamic Project of Da‘wa
University of Edinburgh
Where are the Intellectuals? Culture, Identity and Community in the Modern Middle East
8-9.5.2010
speaker India and the Middle East in the Modern Islamic Networking
Maulana Abu al-Kalam Azad Institute, Kolkata
Perspectives on West Asia: Its Evolution as an Area of Study in the Changing Geopolitical Discourses
*17-18.1.
2011
speaker Preaching and Washington45th Annual Meeting of *1-4.12.
5
Politics in the Islamic Movement in Israel
, DC the Middle East Studies Association
2011
speaker Da'wa in Islamic Movement Activism – the Case of the Muslim Brothers
University of Erfurt
The Da‘wah Phenomenon in International Comparison: Islamic Missions from 1920 to the Present
*9-13.4. 2012
speaker The Muslim Brothers Project of Da'wa from a Social Movement Theory Approach
Center for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) Delhi
The Da'wa Phenomenon in International Comparison II
*16-18.1. 2013
speaker From the Sufi Saint to the Islamic Da'iya: On Propagating Islam in the Modern Age
University of Glasgow
Sufism and Salafism *8-9.3.2013
speaker The Muslim Brotherhood and the Civilization of Islam
Istanbul Medeniyet University
International Congress on Civilizations
*17-19.1. 2014
speaker Populist Islamic Movements in the Post-Caliphate Age: The Case of the Muslim Brothers
Florence University
Populism: a Historiographic category?
*8-10.4. 2014
speaker Sa'id Hawwa of Syria: a Muslim Brother, Salafi, and Sufi
SOAS, London
Reformers and Intellectual Reformulation in Contemporary Islam
*28-30.1. 2015
speaker Salafi Interpretations of the Civilizational Values of Islam
Rio de Janeiro
45th Annual Meeting of the International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations
*11-13.6. 2015
speaker The Saved Party: This Life and the Hereafter in Modern Salafi and Muslim Brotherhood Thought
Vilnius University, Lithuania
Life Here and Hereafter: Beliefs and Practices
*23-24.10. 2015
speaker Roots of Islamism: Abd al-Rahman al-Kawakibi on the corruption and correction of Sufism
University of Erfurt
Sufism East and West: Mystical Islam and Cross-cultural Exchange between the West and the Muslim World (in memory of Annemarie Schimmel)
*15-17.4. 2016
speaker Paradoxes of the Universidad Secularization and *9-11.11.
6
Most Religious State: (De-)Secularization and (In-)Tolerance in Saudi Arabia
de los Andes, Chile
Toleration 2016
speaker The Making of Islamic Modernity: Salafi Thought between the Forefathers and the West
American University in Bulgaria, Blagoevgrad
The Rethinking of Religious Belief in the Making of Modernity
*30.5-1.6.2017
a2. International Conferences - Held in Israel
Role Subject of Lecture/Discussion
Place of Conference
Name of Conference
Date
speaker Sufi Tradition and the Emergence of the Salafiyya in Hamidian Damascus
The Jewish - Arab Center, University of Haifa
Modern Syria: Social, Economic and Political Issues
17.12.1996
speaker Modern Islam between State Formation and Western Influence
The Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Modern Religious Movements in Judaism, Christianity, Islam and the Babi and Baha’i Faiths
17-21.12. 2000
speaker Modern Sufi Attitudes towards the West
Dayan Center, Tel-Aviv
Middle Eastern Societies and the West: Accommodation or Clash of Civilizations?
16-17.12. 2002
speaker From Mediation to the Media: The ‘Ulama’ in the Modern Muslim Public Sphere
The Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Facing Modernity: Rethinking ‘Ulama’ in the Arab Middle East
26-27.6.
2006
speaker Genealogies of Fundamentalism: Salafi Discourse in 19th-century Baghdad
University of Haifa
Iraq – Past and Present
11-14.3.
2007
speaker Kin, Nationalist, and Islamic Identities in Syria under Globalization
The Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Collective Identities, States and Globalization: The Holberg Workshop in Honor of Prof. S.N. Eisenstadt
10-11.6. 2007
speaker Sufi Guidance in the The Open Religious 15-17.12.
7
Informational Age University of Israel
Knowledge, Authority, and Charisma in Islam
2009
speaker Mahmud Shukri al-Alusi and the Salafi Circle in Late Ottoman Iraq
The Hebrew University, Jerusalem
3rd International Conference on Modern Religions and Religious Movements in Judaism, Christianity Islam and the Babi-Baha'i Faiths
*22-24.3.
2011
speaker Sufism in the Age of Globalization
Al-Qasimi College, Baka al-Gharbiyya
In the Footsteps of Sufism: History, Trends and Praxis
*24-25.5. 2011
speaker Sayyid Qutb and his Legacy
University of Haifa
Sayyid Qutb, The Manifest of Radical Islam - Signposts
*22.4.2012
speaker Zawiya, Mosque and the State in Baatist Syria
University of Haifa
State, Mosque and Identity in the Middle East – Past and Present
*15.5.2012
Chair Chair Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Sacrifice and Death in Modern Islam
*11-13.6. 2012
speaker The Muslim Brothers in Syria: Da'wa, Jihad and Politics
The Hebrew University, Jerusalem
The Middle East in Transition
*12.6.2013
speaker Facing Jihad: Inter-Religious Dialogue and Peace in Contemporary Islam
University of Haifa
Interreligious Dialogue, Peace Building and Nonviolence: Asian and Abrahamic Perspectives
*24.12.2014
Keynote Speaker
The Dual Dialectics of Islamic Enlightenment
Tel-Aviv University
Islam and the West, Islam in the West
*7.1.2016
speaker South and West Asia in Modern Islamic Networking
University of Haifa
The Making of the Asian Sphere: Past, Present, and Future
*5-7.4.2016
a3. Local Conferences
Role Subject of Lecture/Discussion
Place of Conference
Name of Conference
Date
speaker Sa‘id Hawwa and Islamic Opposition in
Tel-Aviv University
18th Annual conference of the
1.5.1994
8
Syria under the Ba‘th Israel Oriental Society
speaker The Political Heritage of Ibn Taymiyya in the Mirror of the Original Salafiyya
Bar-Ilan University
22nd Annual conference of the Israel Oriental Society
3.6.1998
speaker Mysticism and Politics in the Naqshbandi Sufi Order
The Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Annual Conference of the Society for the Study of Religion
20.1.2002
speaker Islamic Radicalism – The Revolt of the Masses?
Jerusalem 26th Annual Conference of the Israeli Historical Society
24-27.6. 2002
speaker Sufism in the Globalization Era: The Naqshbandiyya-Haqqaniyya Brotherhood
Ben-Gurion University, Beersheba
27th Annual Conference of the Israel Oriental Society
27.5.2003
speaker An Unfulfilled Vocation? The Naqshbandi Sufi Brotherhood in India from to Early Mughal Rule to Our Days
University of Haifa
Third Annual Conference for the Study of East Asia and India
1-2.2.2004
Chair Chairperson of panel: Sufism and Sufi Brotherhoods.
Van-Leer Institute, Jerusalem
28th Annual Conference of the Israel Oriental Society
13.5. 2004
speaker Sufi Brotherhoods in Modern Israel
Emeq Izrael College.
Judaism, Christianity, Islam – Interfaith Encounters in Israel
28.3.2007
speaker Democratic Fundamentalism? The Discourse and Practice of the Muslim Brothers Society in Syria
University of Haifa
The Muslim Brothers – A Historical Look at 80 Years of Activity (1928-2008)
26.3.2008
speaker Invited to roundtable talk: Intellectuals, Society, and Government in Asia. Paper: Muslim India.
The Hebrew University, Jerusalem
7th Annual Conference of Asian Studies in Israel
21-22.5.
2008
Chair Reflections on the Indo-Muslim: Past, Present, Philosophy, Representations
University of Haifa
9th Annual Conference of Asian Studies in Israel
26-27.4.
2010
speaker Spirituality and Messianism in the Global Sufi Arena
University of Haifa
4th Israeli Conference for the Study of
*19-20.3. 2012
9
Contemporary Spirituality
speaker Sayyid Qutb and his Legacy
University of Haifa
Sayyid Qutb, The Manifest of Radical Islam - Signposts
*22.4.2012
speaker Round Table Discussant
Van-Leer Institute, Jerusalem
Secularization in Contemporary Arab Thought
*2.8.2012
speaker Is there a Place for Sufism in the Modern Age?
Van-Leer Institute, Jerusalem
Conversion, Sufism, Revival and Reform in Islam
*26.2.2013
speaker The Shadhilis in Ottoman Acre – Changes and Hardships in the Shadow of the Tanzimat
Western Galilee College, Acre
Ethnic and Religious Communities in Acre and the Galilee in the Ottoman Period
*11.3.2013
speaker The Muslim Brothers and the National Idea
Ariel University
The Regional Upheaval, the Nation-State, and the Strategic Challenges to Israel
*25.12.2013
speaker In the Shadow of Hamat: The Muslim Brothers and the Civil War in Syria
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
The Muslim brothers and the Challenges of the Democratic Revolutions
*8.1.2014
speaker The Muslim Brotherhood: Spanning the Governance Spectrum from Diffuse Network to Full Statehood?
Inter-Disciplinary Center, Herzliya
The New Terrorism – Governance Nexus: Areas of Limited Statehood, Non-State Armed Groups, and the Transformation of the Middle East
*11-13.2.
2014
speaker From Jihad Fighters to Heralds of the Mahdi: Transformations of a Sufi Brotherhood from the Colonial to the Global Age
Tel-Aviv University
Spaces and Passes: Between the Middle East and Asia and Back
*1.5.2014
speaker Thoughts on a Sour Issue
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Martyrdom in Modern Islam
*15.12.2014
Keynote Speaker
Tel-Aviv University
Shi'i Sectarianism in the Middle East
*13.1.2015
speaker Equilibrium Breached: The Modern Salafiyya between East and West
Israel Academy of Science, Jerusalem
East and West: Encounters, Conflicts and Images
*8-9.3.2015
10
Chair University of Haifa
Muslim Law and Legal Pluralism in Israel
*16.11.2015
Chair University of Haifa
Gender, Childhood and Family in Muslim Societies in Comparative Look
*4.4.2016
speaker The Influence of the Nahda on the Life and Work of Abd al-Rahman al-Kawakibi
Academy of the Arab Language, Nazareth
Journalism, Language and Identity in the Nahda
*3.9.2016
speaker Modernism and Secularism in the Thought of the Salafi IntellectualAbd al-Rahman al-Kawakibi
The Open University
Religions and their Ways of Coping with Secularization and Modernization: Judaism, Christianity and Islam
*21-22.12.
2016
b. Organization of Conferences or Sessions
Role Subject of
Conference
Place of Conference
Name of Conference
Year
Co-organizer Paper: The Naqshbandiyya and the Salafi Challenge in Syria and Iraq
University of Haifa
Perspectives on the Ottoman Reforms: Istanbul and the Syrian Provinces. In Honor of Prof. Butrus Abu-Manneh
3-5.2002
Organizing Committee
University of Haifa
28th Annual Conference of the Oriental Society
13.5.2004
Organizer and Opening talk
Paper: From the Sufi Brotherhood to the Islamist Vanguard in the Syrian Public Sphere.
University of Haifa
Islamic Fundamentalism and Sufism: Continuities and Confrontations through Modernity and Globalization
2-4.7.2007
Organizer and Opening talk
Myth, Memories and, Emotions in a Globalizing Muslim World
The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim
Islamic Resurgence in the Age of Globalization: Myth, Memory, Sentiment
4-6.9.2009
Organizing Committee
Paper: Da‘wa Discourse in the
Ben-Gurion University,
34th Annual Conference of the
27.5.2010
11
Muslim Brothers’ Teaching
Beersheba Middle East and Islamic Studies Association of Israel
Head of Panel Muslim India – Space and Memory. Paper: Beyond Trauma: Memory and Identity among the Muslim Minority in India
The Hebrew University, Jerusalem
10th Annual Conference of Asian Studies in Israel
*25-26.5.
2011
Organizer Discussant and Paper: The Islamic Movement in Israel in the face of the Wave of Arab Revolutions
University of Haifa, The Jewish-Arab Center
Protest and Political Change in the Middle East: Transition from Authoritarian Regimes, Where to?
*18-19.1.
2012
Organizing Committee
Asia As an Idea/ Asia as a Consolidating Unity
University of Haifa
12th Annual Conference of Asian Studies in Israel, 2014
*25-26.5.
2014
Organizer and chair of panel
Islam out of the Box
University of Haifa
38th Annual Conference of the Israeli Society for the Study of the Middle East and Islam
*5.6.2014
Organizer Paper: Da’wa and Jihad: The Inner Muslim Brothers Debate
University of Haifa
Modern Preaching of Islam: Salafis, Islamic Movements, Muslim States
*6-8.1.2015
Organizer of Panel
What is Salafism: New Studies. Paper: Enlightened Salafism and Islamic Modernism
Western Galilee College
40th Annual Conference of the Middle East and Islamic Studies Association of Israel
*9.6.2016
b1. Organization and Participation in Conferences as Director of the Jewish-Arab Center
Role Subject of Conference
Place of Conference
Name of Conference
Year
Co-organizer University of Haifa
School, Family and Community
*1.3.2011
12
Partnerships
Co-organizer The novelist S. Izhar
University of Haifa
Could it Have Been Different?
*14.3.2011
Co-organizer University of Haifa
Usfiya-Daliat al-Karmel and Nature Conservation on Mount Carmel
*27.3.2011
Organizer A Lecture by Professor Mark Sedgwick from Aarhus
University of Haifa
"Israel in the Egyptian imagination": University, Denmark
*13-14.4. 2011
Co-organizer University of Haifa
Index of Jewish-Arab Relations in Israel 2010
*4.5.2011
Co-organizer University of Haifa
Shared Spaces: Reality and Practice
*12.5.2011
Organizer University of Haifa
International Conference - Pacification of Europe: Lessons for the Middle East
*16.5.2011
Co-organizer, in cooperation with Prof. Sammy Smooha
University of Haifa
Protest and Political Change in the Middle East - Transition from Authoritarian regimes, where to?
*22.5.2011
Co-organizer University of Haifa
Politics, Media and Academia in Jewish-Arab Relations in Israel
*13.6.2011
Co-organizer University of Haifa
Arabs and Jews in Israeli Work Organizations
*24-26.6.2011
Co-organizer University of Haifa
Higher Education in Israel and the Druze
*18-19.1.2012
13
Community
Co-organizer and speaker
The Knesset, Jerusalem
Civil Society Conference
*24.1.2012
Co-organizer University of Haifa
Volunteering for Civil Service of Arabs in Israel
*14.2.2012
Co-organizer University of Haifa
Shared Spaces in Israel: the Criminal Justice System
*12.3.2012
Organizer Akko (Acre) Index of Arab-Jewish Relations in Israel 2011
*26.3.2012
Co-organizer and chair:
Three alternative models of "Full Volunteering" of Arabs in Israel
University of Haifa
Conditional citizenship? – The International Day to Struggle Racism
*5.5.2012
Organizer and chair:
The judicial process - the interaction between legal norm and multiculturalism
University of Haifa
Mixed Cities in Israel
*20.5.2012
Co-organizer, in cooperation with Prof. Sammy Smooha
University of Haifa
Multiculturalism and Inter-Faith Dialogue in a Mixed City
*7.6.2012
Participant Citizenship, Racism and Legislation
Tel Hai Haifa Round Tables
*20.3.2013
Organizer and Chair
Haifa as a Model
University of Haifa
Afternoons with IPCRI: Economic and Political Change in Palestine
*25.4.2013
Promoting Intercultural Relations in the Shared Space
Akko (Acre) Index of Arab-Jewish Relations in Israel 2012
*16.5.2013
Leader The Cinematic - Haifa
Fostering Culture of Peace
*23.6.2013
14
Co-organizer University of Haifa
The Image of the Other: Interreligious and Intercultural Education
*17.6.2013
Co-organizer The Israel Democracy Institute – Jerusalem
Enhancing Interfaith Dialogue as a Means for Democratic Development
*30.6.2013
Co-organizer and panelist: The Contribution of Interfaith Understanding
Author and politician Emil Habibi
University of Haifa
Could it Have Been Different?
*15.9.2013
Participant King Abdallah bin Abdulaziz Center, Wien
Interfaith and Intercultural Dialogue Conference
*18-19.11. 2013
Participant Prizren, Kosovo
Interfaith Dialogue
*23-25.5.2014
7. Invited Lectures
Abroad
Role Subject of Lecture Place of Lecture
Name of Forum
Year
Sufism and the Modern World
Near Eastern Studies Department
Princeton University
18.2.1999
‘Abd al-Qadir al-Jaza’iri’s Legacy in Late Ottoman Damascus
Divinity School
Duke University 5.4.1999
The Naqshbandi Order in Central Asia and Beyond
The Open Society Institute
Tashkent 30.3.2002
Mysticism and Politics in the Naqshbandi Sufi Order
Osmania University
Hyderabad 5.2.2003
Mysticism and Politics in the Naqshbandi Sufi Order
Aligarh Muslim University
Aligarh 11.2.2003
15
The Islamic Other: Fundamentalism and Sufism in the Muslim World and Beyond
Public talk Oklahoma University
14.10.2008
Genealogies of Fundamentalism: Salafi Discourse in 19th-century Baghdad
Near Eastern Studies Department
Princeton University
17.11.2008
Hamas in Israeli View History Department
Dickinson College, Carlisle PA
22.1.2009
The Muslim Brothers in Syria: Fundamentalism and Democracy
Middle East Center
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
30.1.2009
The Muslim Brothers in Syria: from Political Participation to Exile
History Department
Dickinson College, Carlisle PA
2.2.2009
The Naqshbandi Sufi Brotherhood in Modernity and Globalization
Divinity School
Kyoto University
6.3.2009
The Islamic Other: Fundamentalism and Sufism in the Muslim World and Beyond
Islamic Area Studies Center
Sophia University, Tokyo
9.3.2009
Ahmad Kuftaru and his Brotherhood in Contemporary Syria
Center for the Middle East and North African Studies
University of Michigan, Ann-Arbor
30.3.2009
The Ulama and the Modern Muslim Public Sphere
Divinity School
University of Chicago
16.4.2009
Invited Seminar
Role Subject of Lecture Place of Lecture
Name of Forum
Year
Guest Lecturer 1) The modern transformation of Salafism
2) Islamic reform between South and West Asia
3) Da'wa and jihad in modern Islamic Discourse
Instut fur Islamische Theologie
Osnabrueck University, Germany
1-3.2.2017
16
4) Sufism and the modernization of Islam
In Israel
Role Subject of Lecture Place of
Lecture Name of Forum
Year
From the Sufi Brotherhood to the Modern Islamic Association: The Case of Syria
Forum Baer Tel-Aviv University
4.4.2003
The Rise and Decline of Sufism in the Modern Era?
Africa and the Middle East: in Memory of Prof. Levtzion
Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem
13.11.2003
Salman Rushdie’s Satanic Verses: Reality and Imagination
The Historian’s Stage
University of Haifa
1.2.2006
Islamic Fundamentalism and the Dialectics of Enlightenment
Forum Baer Tel-Aviv University
13.4.2007
Appraisal In honor of Prof. Sara Sviri’s The Sufis: Anthology
Al-Qasimi College, Baqa al-Gharbiyya
29.5.2008
What is the Salafiyya? Diwan The Open University
27.1.2010
India and the Middle East: Center and Periphery in Modern Islamic Networking
Forum Baer Tel-Aviv University
12.11.2010
Does Sufis Have Place in the Modern Age?
Yad Ben-Zvi *19.2.2014
Post-Sufi Organizations
Sufi Research Group
Tel-Aviv University
*9.6.2014
Islamic Space in the Global Age
Forum Baer Tel-Aviv University
*14.11.2014
Martyrdom in Modern Islam
Book Launching
The Hebrew University
*15.12.2014
The Islamic State and The Cinematic *17.12.2014
17
the Rules of Jihad Historian's Podium
Haifa
Transformation of Modern Salafism from 19th Century Enlightenment to Today's Jihad
Research Forum
The Institute for National Security Studies
*17.12.2015
Salafism and Global Jihad
Post-Graduate Research Forum
The Hebrew University
*28.12.2016
Abd al-Rahman al-Kawakibi: an Organic Intellectual in Late Ottoman Aleppo
Diwan The Open University, Raanana
*22.2.2017
8. Colloquium Talks Together with invited talks. 9. Research Grants
a. Grants Awarded
Years Amount Funded by
(C= Competitive Fund) Title Other
Researchers (Name & Role)
Role in Research
2003-2005
192,000 shekel
The Israeli Academy of Sciences C
Sufi Orders and Radial Vanguards – Islamic Social Organization in the 20th Century
PI
July 2007
$20,000
The Israeli Academy of Sciences: International Conference Grant C
Title: Islamic Fundamentalism and Sufism: Continuities and Confrontations through Modernity and Globalization
PI
2009 $1500 Dickinson College: Research & Development Grant C
The Collective Hero: Mythologies of Origin in the Globalizing Muslim Public
PI
2010-2013
303,000
The Israeli Academy of Sciences C
*The Rise and Evolution of the Modern Salafi Trend, 1880-
*PI
18
Present January 2015
The Israeli Academy of Sciences: International Conference Grant C
*Modern Preaching of Islam: Salafis, Islamic Movements, Muslim States
*PI
2015-2018
390,000 shekel
The Israeli Academy of Sciences C
*The Politics of Dialogue (hiwar) in Contemporary Islam
*PI
c. Submission of Research Proposals – Not Funded
Years Funded by (C= Competitive Fund)
Title Other Researchers (Name & Role)
Role in Research
2006 ISF C
Participation and Surveillance: The Islamic Movement in Egypt, Syria and Palestine, 1945-1973
PI
2010 GIF C
The Evolution of da'wa (Preaching of Islam) in the Middle East, Indian Subcontinent, and West Europe (1750-present)
Prof. Jamal Malik - Co-PI
Co-PI
2013 VW (Volkswagen) C
The Da‘wah Phenomenon in International Comparison: Islamic Missions from 1920 to the Present.
Prof. Jamal Malik - Co-PI
*Co-PI
10. Scholarships, Awards and Prizes
Rotenstreich – Ph.D. scholarship, 1995-1997.
Rothschild – post-doctorate scholarship for Princeton University, 1998-1999.
The British Council – post-doctorate scholarship, Oxford University, 2000.
The Ruth Hermann Prize, Mifal ha-Pais – honorary prize, 2000, 25,000 NIS.
Alon Young Scholars Fellowship – 2000-2003.
11. Teaching
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a. Courses Taught in Recent Years
Number of Students
Level
Type of Course Lecture/Seminar/ Workshop/ Online Course/ Introduction Course (Mandatory)
Name of Course Years
ca. 300 B.A. lecture Introduction to Islam
2005-
12 B.A. Seminar Muslim Civilization in Asia
2009
14 M.A Seminar Approaches to the Study of Islamic fundamentalism
2009
25 B.A. for distinguished students
Seminar Theories of Resistance in the Global Arena: Marx to Bin Laden
2009
10 B.A Arabic Texts Workshop The concept of Da'wa in the Muslim Brothers Teaching
2010
22 B.A. Seminar Islamic Movements in the ME and Beyond
2010
13 M.A. Seminar Islam in Modern India – Society and Culture
2010
15 M.A. Seminar Power and Communication in the ME
*2011
15 B.A. Historical class Trends in Late Sufism
*2011
12 B.A. Seminar Islam and State in South Asia
*2012
15 M.A. Seminar Mysticism and Fundamentalism in Syrian Islam
*2012
10 M.A. Seminar Society, Culture, Islam
*2013
6 B.A. Arabic Texts Workshop Reading in Jihad Literature
*2013
11 B.A. Seminar Political Islam *2014
6 M.A. Graduate Seminar Tradition and Change in Indian Islam
*2014
18 M.A Seminar in Peace and Conflict Management International Program
Political Islam *2014-
12 B.A. Seminar Ofakim (distinguished students)
Islam, Modernity and Post-
*2015
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Modernity
14 B.A. Seminar Salafis and Muslim Brothers
*2015
12 B.A. Arabic Texts Workshop Studies in the Teachings of Shaykh Yusuf al-Qaradawi
*2015
15 Ph.D. and M.A.
Graduate Seminar, the Asian Sphere Inter-University Program
Islamic Trends between South and East Asia
*2016
8 B.A. Seminar What is Salafism? *2016
b. Supervision of Graduate Students
Students' Achievements
Year of Completion/ In Progress
Degree Title of Thesis Name of Other Mentors
Name of Student /
M.A. Students
Presentation at ILMA conference
2013 M.A. Wahhabism in Dispute: The Discourse of the Western Other in Saudi Arabia, 1991-2005
Dorit Heitner
Ph.D. studies at Brandeis University, Boston
2013 M.A. Identity and Culture: Israeli Christians in the Face of the Islamic Revival
Rima Farah
Publication of shared article; Presentation at MESAI conference
2013 M.A. Muslim Secularism in Britain: Discourse and organization in a Multicultural State
Ziv Orenstein
Ph.D. studies at Tel-Aviv University
2016 M.A. Muslim Brotherhood and Wasati Attitudes toward the Sufi Trend in Islam: 1970-Present
Jameel Kittany
2016 M.A Da'wa and Activism in a Multi-Confessional Society: Fathi Yakan and the Jama'at Islami in Lebanon
Tomer Shporn
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In progress M.A. Muhammad Bahjat al-Bitar and the Salafi Trend in 20th-Century Syria
Ruqaya Adawi
In progress M.A. The Islamic Movement in Israel and its Da'wa Activity: Sakhnin as Case Study
Amer Marisat
In progress M.A. Aid al-Qarani: From Salafi Protest to Neo-Liberal Da'wa in Modern Saudi Arabia
Ali Swedan
In progress M.A. The Salafi Movement in Kuwait: Purity and Activism in an Oil Princedom
Jihad Harb-Mansour
Ph.D. Students
Teaching in Open University; Presentation at ILMA conference
2010 Ph.D.
Sufism and Resistance: Muhammad Amin and the Circassian Anti- Colonial Struggle in the Northwest Caucuses in the Mid-19th Century
Prof. Moshe Gammer
Yahya
Khoon
Submitted Ph.D. Representations of the Arabs and the Middle East in the Writings of Indian Muslim Leaders, 1857-1947
Meirav Or-Emergi
In progress Ph.D. Muhammad Qutb between The Muslim Brothers and Wahhabism
Dorit Heitner
In progress Ph.D. Domestic Muslim Response to Radicalization in Britain and Germany in the 21st Century
Ziv Orenstein
Post Doctorate Students
2013-2014 Post-Da'wa in Western Dina
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Doctorate
Europe Lysnianski
2015-2016 Post-Doctorate
Salafis and Sufis in Contemporary Egypt
Michael Barak
12. Miscellaneous
2015 - Recoding two lectures at the Open University advanced course: Religious Knowledge, Authority, and Charisma in Islam.
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PUBLICATIONS v-vatat list (The Council for Higher Education)
A. Ph.D. Dissertation Title: Reform Trends in Islam – Sufism and Salafiyya in Damascus, 1823-1918. Date of submission: May 1997. Number of pages: 420 pp. Language: Hebrew Name of supervisor: Prof. Nehemia Levtzion and Prof. Butrus Abu-Manneh. University: University of Haifa Publications: (B1, D4. D5, D6).
B. Scientific Books (Refereed)
Authored Books – Published
1) Itzchak Weismann, Taste of Modernity: Sufism, Salafiyya, and Arabism in Late Ottoman Damascus. Leiden: Brill, 2001, 343pp.
2) Itzchak Weismann, The Naqshbandiyya: Orthodoxy and Activism in a Worldwide Sufi Tradition. London and New York: Routledge, 2007, xv+208pp.
*2a) Itzchak Weismann, Naksibendilik. Istanbul: Litera Publications, 2015 (in Turkish).
*3) Itzchak Weismann, Abd al-Rahman al-Kawakibi: Islamic Reform and Arab Revival. London: Oneworld, 2015, 141pp.
Edited Books and Special Journal Issues
Published For joint publications, the order of authors (or editors) is according to their relative contribution, unless otherwise specified
1) Itzchak Weismann and Fruma Zachs, eds. Ottoman Reform and Islamic
Regeneration. London: I.B. Tauris, 2005, 233pp.
1a) Itzchak Weismann and Fruma Zachs, Osmanlı Reformları, Taşrada Uygulanışı ve Etkileri. Istanbul: Islik Yayinlari, forthcoming in 2017 (in Turkish).
2) Itzchak Weismann, section ed. "Sufi Thought and Brotherhood Organization" in Aharon Layish ed. Islam: Conversion, Sufism, Revival and Reform: Essays in Memory of Nehemia Levtzion. Tel-Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 2012 (in Hebrew), 176pp.
3) Itzchak Weismann, Mark J. Sedgwick, and Ulrika Mårtensson, eds. Islamic Myths and Memories: Mediators of Globalization. Farnham, Surrey; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2014, 263pp.
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Under Review
Itzchak Weismann and Jamal Malik, eds. Preaching and Politics: Islamic Da'wa in the Modern World. 450pp.
Scientific Editions and Prefaces (in Hebrew)
1) Itzchak Weismann, Sayyid Qutb: Manifest of Radical Islam – Signposts. Tel-Aviv: Resling, 2011 (in Hebrew), 200pp.
2) Itzchak Weismann, Abd al-Rahman al-Kawakibi, The Revival of Islam Congress in Mecca, the Mother of Cities. Tel-Aviv: Resling, 2015, 200.
D. Articles in Refereed Journals
Published
1) Itzchak Weismann, “Sa‘id Hawwa - The Making of a Radical Muslim Thinker in Modern Syria,” Middle Eastern Studies, vol. 29 (1993), pp. 601-623. (v)
2) Itzchak Weismann, “The Islamic Opposition in Ba‘thist Syria,” The New East, vol. 35 (1996), pp. 83-104. (in Hebrew). (v)
3) Itzchak Weismann, “Sa‘id Hawwa and Islamic Revivalism in Ba‘thist Syria,” Studia Islamica, no. 85 (1997), pp. 131-154.
4) Itzchak Weismann, “The Political Heritage of Ibn Taymiyya in the Light of the Original Salafiyya,” The New East, vol. 42 (2001), pp. 25-42 (in Hebrew). (v)
5) Itzchak Weismann, “Between Sufi Reformism and Modernist Rationalism - A Reappraisal of the Origins of the Salafiyya from the Damascene Angle,” Die Welt des Islams, vol. 41 (2001), pp. 206-237. (v)
6) Itzchak Weismann, “God and the Perfect Man in the Experience of ‘Abd al-Qadir al-Jaza’iri,” Journal of the Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi Society, vol. 30 (2001), pp. 55-72.
6a) Itzchak Weismann, “Dieu et l’Homme Parfait dans la Realisation de ‘Abd al-Qadir al-Jaza’iri,” Vers la Tradition, no. 114-115 (2008-2009), pp. 118-133 (in French).
7) Itzchak Weismann, “The Forgotten Shaykh: ‘Isa al-Kurdi and the Transformation of the Naqshbandi-Khalidi Order in Twentieth Century Syria,” Die Welt des Islams, vol. 43 (2003), pp. 273-293. (v)
8) Itzchak Weismann, “Sufi Brotherhoods in Syria and Israel: A Contemporary Overview,” History of Religions, vol. 43 (2004), pp. 303-318. (v)
8a) Itzchak Weismann, “Suriye ve İsrail’de Tarikatlar: Günümüzdeki Duruma Toplu Bir Bakış,” Tasavvuf, no. 17 (2006), pp. 267-281 (in Turkish).
9) Itzchak Weismann, “The Naqshbandiyya-Khalidiyya and the Salafi Challenge in Iraq,” Journal of the History of Sufism vol. 4 (2004), pp. 229-240.
10) Itzchak Weismann, “The Invention of a Populist Islamic Leader: Badr al-Din al-Hasani, the Religious Educational Movement, and the Great Syrian Revolt,” Arabica, vol. 52 (2005), pp. 109-139. (v)
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11) Itzchak Weismann, “The Politics of Popular Religion: Sufis, Salafis, and Muslim Brothers in Twentieth-Century Hamah,” International Journal of Middle East Studies, vol. 37 (2005), pp. 39-58. (v)
12) Itzchak Weismann, “The Sociology of ‘Islamic Modernism’: Muhammad ‘Abduh, the National Public Sphere, and the Colonial State,” The Maghreb Review, vol. 32 (2007), pp. 104-121.
13) Itzchak Weismann, “Abu al-Huda al-Sayyadi and the Rise of Islamic Fundamentalism,” Arabica, vol. 54 (2007), pp. 586-592. (v)
14) Itzchak Weismann, “The Deviant Dervishes, Sufism, and Muslim Orthodoxy,” Jama‘a, vol. 15 (2007), pp. 85-95 (in Hebrew). (v)
15) Itzchak Weismann, “The Hidden Hand: The Khalidiyya and the Orthodox – Fundamentalist Nexus in Aleppo,” Journal of the History of Sufism, vol. 5 (2007), pp. 41-59.
16) Itzchak Weismann, “Genealogies of Fundamentalism: Salafi Discourse in Nineteenth-Century Baghdad,” British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, vol. 36 (2009), pp. 269-282. (v)
17) Itzchak Weismann, “Democratic Fundamentalism? – The Practice and Discourse of the Muslim Brothers Movement in Syria,” The Muslim World, vol. 100 (2010), pp. 1-16. (v)
*18) Itzchak Weismann, “Democracy in the Middle East: A Deaf Conversation?: On Uriya Shavit's Wars of Democracy” Catharsis, no. 14 (2010), pp. 32-58 (in Hebrew).
*19) Itzchak Weismann, “Modernity from Within: Islamic Fundamentalism and Sufism,” Der Islam, vol. 86 (2011), pp. 142-170.
*20) Itzchak Weismann, “Beyond Trauma: History and Identity among the Muslim Minority in India – A View on the Teaching of Abu al-Hasan 'Ali al-Nadwi,” The New East, vol. 51 (2012), pp. 52-68 (in Hebrew). (v)
*21) Itzchak Weismann, “Between Islam and the West: The Sufi Tradition in the Face of the Challenges of Globalization,” The New East, vol. 52 (2013), pp. 157-180 (in Hebrew). (v)
*22) Itzchak Weismann, “Indian Roots of Modern Islamic Revivalism,” Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, vol. 36, no. 4 (2013), 19-35.
*23) Itzchak Weismann, “Material Progress and Cultural Supremacy: Muslim Brotherhood Conceptualizations of Civilization,” Journal of Civilization Studies, vol.1 (2014), pp. 63-79.
*24) Itzchak Weismann, “Framing a Modern Umma: The Muslim Brothers' Evolving Project of Da‘wa,” Sociology of Islam, vol. 3, no. 3-4 (2015), pp. 146-169.
*25) Itzchak Weismann and Ofer Parchev. “Liberalism and Multiculturalism in a Jewish-Democratic Society: The Acre Shared Space Project,” The Public Sphere, no. 10 (2016), pp. 43-63 (in Hebrew).
*26) Ziv Orenstein# and Itzchak Weismann, “Neither Muslim nor Other: British Secular Muslims,” Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations, vol. 27 (2016), pp. 379–395. (v)
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Accepted for Publication
*27) Itzchak Weismann, “A Perverted Balance: Modern Salafism between Reform and Jihad,” Die Welt des Islam, vol. 57 (2017), pp. 33-66. (v)
*28) Itzchak Weismann, “New and Old Perspectives in the Study of Modern Salafism,” Bustan: The Middle East Book Review, vol. 8 (2017)
E. Articles or Chapters in Scientific Books (Refereed)
Published
1) Itzchak Weismann, “‘Abd al-Qadir al-Jaza’iri: Reminding the Intellectual, notifying the unmindful,” in Charles Kurzman (ed.), Modernist Islam 1840-1940: A Sourcebook (New York, 2002), pp. 133-137.
2) Itzchak Weismann, “Sufismo e confraternite nell’area Siriana: Strategie religiose e implicazioni politiche,” in Marietta Stepanyants (ed.), Sufismo e confraternite nell’islam contemporaneo: Il difficile equilibrio tra mistica e politica (Turin, 2003), pp. 103-121 (in Italian, also appears as D8).
3) Itzchak Weismann, “Sufi Reformist Diffusion and the Rise of Arabism in Late Ottoman Syria,” in Thomas Philipp and Christoph Schumann (eds.), From the Land of Syria to the Syrian States (Beirut, 2004), pp. 113-125.
4) Itzchak Weismann, “Law and Sufism on the Eve of Reform: The Views of Ibn ‘Abidin,” in Itzchak Weismann and Fruma Zachs (eds.), Ottoman Reform and Islamic Regeneration (London, 2005), pp. 69-80.
5) Itzchak Weismann, “The Shadhiliyya-Darqawiyya in the Arab East (19th-20th Century),” in Eric Geoffroy (ed.), Une voie soufie dans le monde – La Shadhiliyya (Paris, 2005), pp. 255-269.
6) Itzchak Weismann, “Modern Sufi Attitudes toward the West: Four Naqshbandi Cases,” in Meir Litvak (ed.), Middle Eastern Societies and the West: Accommodation or Clash of Civilizations? (Tel-Aviv, 2006), pp. 221-236.
6a) Itzchak Weismann, “Sufismo contemporano e Occidente, Quattro casi Naqshbandi,” in Stefano Salzani (ed.), Teologie politiche islamiche (Genova and Milano, 2006), pp. 187-204 (in Italian).
7) Itzchak Weismann, “Sufi Fundamentalism in India and the Middle East,” in Martin van Bruinessen and Julia Howell (eds.), Sufism and the ‘Modern’ in Islam (London and New York, 2007), pp. 115-128.
7a) Itzchak Weismann, “Fundamentalisme Sufi Antara India dan Timur Tengah," in Martin van Bruinessen and Julia Howell (eds.), Urban Sufism (Jakarta: Rajawali Pers, 2008), pp. 197-219 (in Indonesian).
*8) Itzchak Weismann, “L’islam e il Concetto di Modernita,” in Giovanni Filoramo (ed.), Le religioni e il mondo moderno, vol. 3: Islam (Torino: Giulio Einaudi Editore, 2009). pp. 5-28 (in Italian).
*9) Itzchak Weismann, “South Asia, West Asia, and the Center - Edge Dialectics of Modern Islamic Networking,” in Priya Singh and Susmita Bhattacharya (eds.), Perspectives on West Asia: The Evolving Geopolitical Discourses (New Delhi: Shipra Publishers, 2012), pp. 85-101.
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*10) Itzchak Weismann, “Revival and Reform in the Face of the West: The Sufi Discourse of ‘Abd al-Qadir al-Jaza’iri,” in Aharon Layish (ed.), Conversion, Sufism, Revival and Reform in Islam Tel-Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 2012 (in Hebrew), pp. 232-258.
*11) Itzchak Weismann, “Fundamentalism and Democracy in the Discourse of the Muslim Brothers in Syria,” in Meir Hatina and Uri M. Kupferscmidt (eds.), The Muslim Brothers: A Religious Vision in a Changing Reality. Tel-Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 2012 (in Hebrew), pp. 125-146 (also appears as D17).
*12) Itzchak Weismann, “Knowledge and Leadership: Modern Constructions – an Overview,” in Daphna Ephrat and Meir Hatina (eds.), Religious Knowledge, Authority and Charisma: Islamic and Jewish Perspectives. Salt Lake City: The University of Utah Press, 2014, pp. 149-156.
*13) Itzchak Weismann, “The Myth of Perpetual Departure: Sufis in a New (Age) Global (Dis)Order,” in Itzchak Weismann, Mark Sedgwick and Ulrika Martensson (eds.), Islamic Myths and Memories: Mediators of Globalization. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2014, pp. 121-137.
*14) Itzchak Weismann, “Die Vorlāufer des Modernen Salafismum,” in Thorsten Gerald Schneiders (ed.), Salafismus in Deutschland: Ursprünge und Gefahren einer islamisch-fundamentalistischen Bewegung. Bielfeld: Transcript, 2014, pp.103-116.
*15) Itzchak Weismann, “Sufism in the Age of Globalization,” Lloyd Ridgeon (ed.), Cambridge Companion to Sufism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015, pp. 257-281.
*16) Itzchak Weismann, “Modernity from within: Islamic Fundamentalism and Sufism,” Lloyd Ridgeon (ed.), Sufis and Salafis in the Contemporary Age. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015, pp. 9-31 (also appears as D19).
Accepted for Publication
*17) Itzchak Weismann, “The Sufi Brotherhoods between Modernity and Islamism,” in Meir Bar-Asher and Meir Hatina (eds.), Introduction to Islam (in Hebrew).
*18) Itzchak Weismann, “The Formation and Expansion of the Modern Da‘wa Discursive Field,” in Itzchak Weismann and Jamal Malik (eds.), Da'wa: Preaching Islam in the Modern World
G. Entries in Encyclopedias Published
1) Islamic Modernism, Encyclopedia of Western Colonialism since 1450 (Farmington Hills: Thomson-Gale, 2006), vol. 2, pp. 656-661.
2) ‘Abd al-Majid al-Khani, Encyclopedia of Islam, 3rd edition.
3) ‘Abd al-Razzaq al-Bitar, Encyclopedia of Islam, 3rd edition.
4) Abu Sa‘id Shah, Encyclopedia of Islam, 3rd edition.
5) Badr al-Din al-Hasani, Encyclopedia of Islam, 3rd edition.
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*6) Dawud b. Jirjis, Encyclopedia of Islam, 3rd edition.
*7) Fasiyya, Encyclopedia of Islam, 3rd edition.
*8) Syria, Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World, 2nd ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013).
*9) Hawwa, Sa‘id, Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World, 2nd ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013).
*10) Sirhindi, Ahmad, Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Politics, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014).
*11) Nadwat al-Ulama, Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Politics Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Politics, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014).
Submitted for Publication
*12) ‘Isa al-Kurdi, Encyclopedia of Islam, 3rd edition.
*13) Jan-i Janan Mazhar, Encyclopedia of Islam, 3rd edition.
*14) Al-Kawakibi, Abd al-Rahman, Encyclopedia of Islam, 3rd edition.
*15) Naqshbandiyya, Islam: A Worldwide Encyclopedia.
H. Other Scientific Publications
Book Reviews - Published
1) Itzchak Weismann, Vincent Cornell, Realm of the Saint: Power and Authority in Moroccan Sufism (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1998) – Studia Islamica, vol. 94 (2002).
2) Itzchak Weismann, Elizabeth Sirriyeh, Sufi Visionary of Ottoman Damascus: ‘Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulusi, 1641-1731 (London and New York: Routledge Curzon, 2005) – MESA Bulletin, vol. 40/2 (2006).
3) Itzchak Weismann, David Commins, The Wahhabi Mission and Saudi Arabia (London and New York: I.B.Tauris, 2006) – Electronic Journal of the Middle East Studies-MIT, Spring 2008.
4) Itzchak Weismann, Dina LeGall, A Culture of Sufism: Naqshbandis in the Ottoman World, 1450-1700 (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2005) – Jama‘a, vol. 17 (2009), pp. 213-218 (in Hebrew).
*5) Itzchak Weismann, Raphaël Lefèvre, Ashes of Hama: The Muslim Brotherhood in Syria (London: Hurst & Co., 2013) – Middle Eastern Studies, vol. 50 (2014), pp. 171-174.
*6) Itzchak Weismann, Nuhad Ali, Between Ovadia and Abdallah: Islamic Fundamentalism and Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel (Tel Aviv: Resling, 2013) – The New East, vol. 54 (2015), pp. 220-224 (in Hebrew).
Book Reviews - Accepted for Publication
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*7) Itzchak Weismann, Bernard Rougier, The Sunni Tragedy in the Middle East: Northern Lebanon from al-Qaeda to ISIS (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016) – Journal of Global Analysis, vol. 7 (2017),
*8) Itzchak Weismann, Shiraz Maher, Salafi-Jihadism: The History of an Idea (London: C. Hurst, 2016) – Journal of Third World Studies
I. Other Works and Publications
*1) "Is Islam on Unavoidable Course of Clash with the West? – an Interview" Iyunim in Education, Society, Technology and Science, no. 11 (March 2011), pp. 8-11.
*2) "Saudi Arabia Promoting "Liberal Islam" Through Inter-Religious Tolerance Conference," Haaretz, 1 December, 2013.
3) Developing an E-Learning course: “Introduction to Islam.”
Appearances on Israeli TV and the Press
TV Interview in the program "Kafe Hafuch" 1 May 2013. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyWWhNHQtUI
Photo Exhibition, Travels in the World of Islam. University of Haifa; National School of Tourism: Tadmor Hotel, Herzelia.
J. Submitted Publications
None
K. Summary of my Activities and Future Plans
My research is devoted to the ideology and action of modern Islamic movements, particularly those of the Salafis and the Muslim Brothers. It examines how these movements emerged from the pre-modern Islamic tradition, which had been dominated by the Sufi brotherhoods, and the ideological and organizational innovations they introduced in the wake of the encounter with the West and in light of modernization processes in the Muslim world. My focus was first on Syria, but it has gradually expanded to cover other countries in the Middle East, South Asia and Asia at large, and the global arena.
My work is characterized by several distinctive features. One is the broadness of the subjects I treat: the whole gamut of religious trends in Damascus through an entire century (three generations), or the history of the Naqshbandi brotherhood from its beginnings in Central Asia, through its offshoots in India and the Ottoman Empire to the contemporary global scene. A second feature is the stress on the connections and transformations between the religious trends, such as the shift from Sufi mysticism to
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the ideology of Salafism, or the transformation of the Sufi mystic path into modern da'wa (preaching) organizations such the Society of the Muslim Brothers. Another important feature is the effort to understand the ideas of Islamic thinkers at the intersection between their own inner worldview and the circumstances in which they lived and the challenges to which they tried to respond, as is apparent in my recently published biography of the early Aleppine Salafi Kawakibi. Last but not least, much of my research sails against accepted views, e.g. in the case of the alleged contradiction between Sufism and modern Islamic movements, or the analysis of the democratic and civilizational agendas of the Muslim Brothers.
Currently I'm engaged in three major projects.
One concerns the modern Salafi trend. More particularly I try to elucidate how the liberal-religious thought of the early enlightened Salafis of the late nineteenth century degenerated into the rigid conservatism of the purist Salafis and the brutal violence of the Salafi-Jihadi organizations of al-Qaeda and the Islamic State (ISIS). I have written an article that sums up my initial findings and now prepare an integrative book on the subject. The second project deals with the mechanisms of modern preaching of Islam (da'wa). My argument here is that it is da'wa rather than jihad that forms the pivot of the contemporary Islamic public discourse in general, and the backbone of modern Islamic collective action in particular. I convened an international conference on this topic, and currently co-edit (as the principal editor) of a volume that treats its various aspects. A third project, in its initial stage, is about Islamic conceptualizations of interfaith and intercultural dialogue (hiwar). I'll try to show that this is a new concept began to develop in the past few decades in different Muslim environments, from Muslim minorities in Western Europe and the United States to the conservative government of Saudi Arabia in the wake of 9/11. This trend gains momentum as a counterbalance to Islamic terrorism.
In the future, I plan to expand my research in two major directions. One is to integrate the various strands of my research into a comprehensive study of the Muslim encounter with Western modernity and its implications in the 20th and 21st centuries. The other direction is to make a comparison between the modern transformations of Islam with those which took place in Judaism in general, and religious Zionism in particular.
In Preparation
Scientific Editions
1) Itzchak Weismann, Abdallah Nimer Darwish, Islam is the Solution.Tel-Aviv: Resling (in Hebrew), c. 150pp.
2) Itzchak Weismann, Yusuf al-Qaradawi, Priorities of the Islamic Movement in the Coming Stage. Tel-Aviv: Resling (in Hebrew), c. 200pp.
Book Reviews
3) Itzchak Weismann, Shiraz Maher, Salafi–Jihadism: The History of An Idea (London: Hurst, 2016) – Journal of Third World Studies.
