The Public Sphere in Muslim Societies

CONTRIBUTORS

CONTRIBUTORS Dale F. Eickelman is Ralph and Richard Lazarus Professor of Anthropology and Human Relations at Dartmouth College. Among his publications are Muslim Politics (coauthored with James Piscatori), The Middle East and Central Asia: An Anthropological Approach, and New Media in the Muslim World: The Emerging Public Sphere (co-edited with Jon W. Anderson). Shmuel N. Eisenstadt is Professor Emeritus of Sociology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Senior Fellow, Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. His recent publications include: Japanese Civilization: A Comparative View; Paradoxes of Democracy: Fragility, Continuity and Change; Fundamentalism, Sectarianism and Revolutions. Daphna Ephrat is Lecturer in the Department of History, Philosophy, and Judaic Studies at The Open University of Israel and teaches undergraduate courses in the Department of Middle Eastern and African History at Tel Aviv University. Her publications include: A Learned Society in a Period of Transition: the Sunni `Ulama' of Eleventh-Century Baghdad and articles on related subjects. She is co-author of an introductory course on Islam taught at the Open University of Israel. Haim Gerber is Professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His publications include: Social Origins of the Modern Middle East and other books and articles on the legal and social history of the region. Miriam Hoexter is Associate Professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her publications include: Endowments, Rulers and Community : Waqf al-Haramayn in Ottoman Algiers and articles on the social history of Ottoman and Colonial Algeria, Ottoman Palestine, and the Islamic endowment institution. Nimrod Hurvitz is Lecturer at the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, The BenGurion University of the Negev. His recent publications include: “Biographies and Mild Asceticism: A Study of Islamic Moral Imagination” and “Schools of Law and Historical Context: Re-examining the Formation of the Hanbali Madhhab.” Aharon Layish is Professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is Executive Editor of Islamic Law and Society. His recent publications include: Divorce in the Libyan Family; Legal Documents on Libyan Tribal Society in Process of Sedentarization. Books in progress: The Reinstatement of Islamic Law in Sudan under Numayri (with Gabriel Warburg); The Mahdi’s Legal Methodology in Sudan, 1881–1885. 185 Nehemia Levtzion is Fuld and Bamberger Professor of History of the Muslim Peoples at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He served as Dean of Humanities at the Hebrew University and as President of the Open University of Israel. He is currently the Chair of the Council for Higher Education’s Planning and Budgeting Committee. Among his publications: Muslims and Chiefs in West Africa; Ancient Ghana and Mali; Conversion to Islam; with J. F. P. Hopkins Corpus of Early Arabic Sources for West African History; editor with J. O. Voll, Eighteenth Century Renewal and Reform in Islam; Islam in West Africa: Religion, Society and Politics to 1800; editor with Randall Pouwels, The History of Islam in Africa. Daniella Talmon-Heller, is Lecturer at the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, The Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. She is co-author of an introductory course on Islam taught at the Open University of Israel. She is presently working on a book on Society and Religion in twelfth- and thirteenth-century Syria. 186 LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS ...