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Curriculum Vitae Name: Itzchak Weismann Date: 2/11/2020 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 number: +97254-2518513 Email Address: [email protected] 2. Higher Education a. Undergraduate and Graduate Studies Period of Study Name of Institution Degree and Department 1984-1987 University of Haifa History of B.A. the Middle East and B.A. Honor Program 1988-1990 University of Haifa History of M.A. the Middle East Dept. 1994-1997 University of Haifa History of Ph.D. the Middle East Dept. b. Post-Doctoral Studies Period of Study Name of Institution and Name of Host Department/Lab 1998-1999 Princeton University Prof. Michael Cook Near Eastern Studies Dept. 2000 Oxford University, --------------- St. Antony’s College 3. Academic Ranks and Tenure in Institutes of Higher Education Years Name of Institution and Rank/Position Department 1989-1997 University of Haifa, Middle Teaching Fellow East History 1990-1994 Emeq Izrael College Teaching Fellow 1994 Tel Hay College Teaching Fellow 1 1998-2000 University of Haifa, Middle Dr. Instructor East History 2001 -2005 University of Haifa, Middle Lecturer East History 2005-2010 University of Haifa, Middle Senior Lecturer (with East History tenure) 2008-2009 Dickinson College PA, History Visiting Professor 2010-2018 University of Haifa, Middle Assistant Professor East History 2018- University of Haifa, Middle Associate Professor East and Islamic Studies 4. Offices in Academic Administration Years Name of Institution and Role Department 2001 The Faculty Council member 2006-2008 Faculty examinations member committee 2006-2007 Faculty disciplinary member committee 2009-2012 Faculty Curriculum member Committee 2009-2010 Executive Committee of the member Jewish-Arab Center *2010-2013 Research Authority Council member *2009-2011 Post-Doctorate Committee member *2010-2013 The Jewish-Arab Center director *2012-2014 Member of the Senate *2012 Board of trustees Senate representative *2012 Steering committee of MA initiator and member Program of Cultural Studies *2013-2014 Steering committee of MA member Program in Peace and Conflict Management Studies *2014- Steering committee of Post- member Graduate Inter-University Program, Asian Spheres *2016- Flag Course: Religion and director State in the Secular Age 5. Scholarly Positions and Activities outside the University Years Memberships in Academic Professional Associations 1999 The Middle East and Islamic Studies Society of Israel 2006-2008 Publications committee of the Middle East and Islamic Studies Society of Israel 2008- Middle East Studies Association 2 *2009-2011 Council of The Middle East and Islamic Studies Society of Israel *2016- Israeli Association for the Study of Religions (IASR) Years Editorial Assignments 2005 Scientific adviser of Islam: An Introduction to the History of Religion, vol. 4, published by the Israeli Open University 2007-2009 Editorial committee of the journal ha-Mizrah ha-Hadash *2010- Founder and scientific editor of Crescent: A Series for Islamic Thought in Resling Publishing (for specific volumes see List of Publications) *2011- Editorial board of Journal of Sufi Studies *2012 Editorial board of volume in Memory of Prof. Nehemia Levtzion (See List of Publications) *2016- Editorial board of British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 2019 Advisory board of Journal of Islamic Research Years Reviewing for Refereed Journal 2010 International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies *2012 Cathedra (Hebrew) *2016 Hamizrah Hahadash (Hebrew) *2017 Die Welt des Islam *2018 History 2019 Philosophical Journal of Conflict and Violence Years Reviewing for Fund Agencies 2009 The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research - NWO *2011, Israel Science Foundation (ISF) 2016, 2019 *2012, ISF evaluation committee member 2014 6. Active Participation in Scholarly Conferences a1. International Conferences - Held Abroad Date Name of Conference Place of Subject of Role Conference Lecture/Discussion 4-8.10.1999 13th Turkish Historical Ankara The Shaykh and the Speaker Congress Commander - The Naqshbandi Khalidi order in Syria during the First World War 28.7- 2.8. Third Conference on Erlangen, External Influences Speaker 2000 the Syrian Land: Germany and Inner Evolution Processes of Identities among the Sufi and Ideologies Reformist Movements of Late Ottoman Syria 30.3- 1.4. 18th Annual Oxford God and the Perfect Speaker 2001 Conference of the Man in the 3 Date Name of Conference Place of Subject of Role Conference Lecture/Discussion Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi Experience of ‘Abd Society al-Qadir al-Jaza’iri 8-13.9.2002 First World Congress University Shaykh ‘Isa al-Kurdi Speaker for Middle Eastern of Mainz and the Naqshbandi- Studies Mujaddidi Legacy in Twentieth Century Syria 20-22.11. The Role of Sufism and Turin Sufism and Speaker 2002 Muslim Brotherhoods Brotherhoods in the in Contemporary Islam Syrian Area: - An Alternative to Religious Strategies Political Islam? and Political Implications 7-10.5.2003 4th International Murcia, Between Attraction Speaker Conference of Islamic Spain and Denunciation: Legal Studies: Law and Ibn ‘Abidin’s View Sufism of Sufism 4-7.9.2003 Sufism and the Bogor, Sufism without Speaker ‘Modern’ in Islam Indonesia tasawwuf: A Naqshbandi-Related Response to the Islamist Critique in India and the Middle East 5-7.2.2004 India and the World- New Delhi India and the Middle Speaker Crossed Glances and East: The Islamic Relations Perspective 13.1.2006 Religion and Political Yaoundé, Sufism and the Speaker Power Cameroon Middle Eastern State: Decline, Collaboration, Resistance 24-25.4. Democracy, CEMA Between Speaker 2006 Fundamentalism and University Communication and Nuclear Politics in the Buenos Terror: Islamic Contemporary Middle Aires Fundamentalism in East Socio-Historical Perspective 21-23.9. 7th Nordic Conference University Nu’man Khayr al- Speaker in Middle East Studies: of Helsinki Din al-Alusi and the 2007 The Middle East: Rise of the Salafiyya Diversity, Variation, in Baghdad Interpretation 21-24.11. 43rd Annual Meeting of Boston A Return to the Speaker the Middle East Studies Future: The 2009 Association Formation and Transformation of 4 Date Name of Conference Place of Subject of Role Conference Lecture/Discussion the Modern Salafi Discourse 8-9.5.2010 Where are the University Activist Religious Speaker Intellectuals? Culture, of Intellectuals and the Identity and Edinburgh Islamic Project of Community in the Da‘wa Modern Middle East *17-18.1. Perspectives on West Maulana India and the Middle Speaker Asia: Its Evolution as Abu al- East in the Modern 2011 an Area of Study in the Kalam Islamic Networking Changing Geopolitical Azad Discourses Institute, Kolkata *1-4.12. 45th Annual Meeting of Washington Preaching and Speaker the Middle East Studies DC Politics in the 2011 Association Islamic Movement in Israel *9-13.4. The Da‘wah Phenomen University Da'wa in Islamic Speaker 2012 on in International of Erfurt Movement Activism Comparison: Islamic – the Case of the Missions from 1920 to Muslim Brothers the Present *16-18.1. The Da'wa Center for The Muslim Speaker 2013 Phenomenon in the Study of Brothers Project of International Developing Da'wa from a Social Comparison II Societies Movement Theory (CSDS) Approach Delhi *8-9.3.2013 Sufism and Salafism University From the Sufi Saint Speaker of Glasgow to the Islamic Da'iya: On Propagating Islam in the Modern Age *17-19.1. International Congress Istanbul The Muslim Speaker 2014 on Civilizations Medeniyet Brotherhood and the University Civilization of Islam *8-10.4. Populism: a Florence Populist Islamic Speaker 2014 Historiographic University Movements in the category? Post-Caliphate Age: The Case of the Muslim Brothers *28-30.1. Reformers and SOAS, Sa'id Hawwa of Speaker 2015 Intellectual London Syria: a Muslim Reformulation in Brother, Salafi, and Contemporary Islam Sufi *11-13.6. 45th Annual Meeting of Rio de Salafi Interpretations Speaker 2015 the International Janeiro of the Civilizational Society for the Values of Islam 5 Date Name of Conference Place of Subject of Role Conference Lecture/Discussion Comparative Study of Civilizations *23-24.10. Life Here and Vilnius The Saved Party: Speaker 2015 Hereafter: Beliefs and University, This Life and the Practices Lithuania Hereafter in Modern Salafi and Muslim Brotherhood Thought *15-17.4. Sufism East and West: University Roots of Islamism: Speaker 2016 Mystical Islam and of Erfurt Abd al-Rahman al- Cross-cultural Kawakibi on the Exchange between the corruption and West and the Muslim correction of Sufism World (in memory of Annemarie Schimmel) *9-11.11. Secularization and Universidad Paradoxes of the Speaker 2016 Toleration de Los Most Religious Andes, State: Chile (De-)Secularization and (In-)Tolerance in Saudi Arabia *30.5- The Rethinking of American The Making of Speaker 1.6.2017 Religious Belief in the University Islamic Modernity: and Making of Modernity in Bulgaria, Salafi Thought Chair Blagovgrad between the Forefathers and the West *3-6.10. 4th Multidisciplinary Ponta The Modern Salafi Speaker 2018 Congress - Modernity: Delgada, Revolution and the Frontiers and Azores, New Frontiers of Revolutions Portugal Islam *5-6.12. The Future of Salafism Oxford Concludi 2018 University ng panel 15-16.11. Ideology and Identity: Charles A Sufi Apocalyptic Speaker 2019 Theological, Legal and University, response to and Political Responses to Prague Salafism: The concludi Salafism Global Haqqani
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