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Daniel Tsadik

Daniel
Tsadik

Associate Professor of Sephardic and Iranian Studies

36tsadikim@gmail.com

Wilf campus - Furst Hall
Room#222

PhD, Yale University, 2002

History of the Jews in Islamic lands; Modern Iran; Shi'i Islam; Iran's religious minorities; Iran's Jewry

Between Foreigners and Shi‘is: Nineteenth-Century Iran and its Jewish Minority (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007). ) “The Legal Status of Religious Minorities: Imami Shi‘i Law and Iran’s Constitutional Revolution,” Islamic Law and Society 10, 3 (2003), 376-408. “Nineteenth Century Shi‘i Anti-Christian Polemics and the Jewish Aramaic Nevuat ha-Yeled [The Prophecy of the Child],” Iranian Studies 37 (2004), 5-15. “Religious Disputations of Imami Shi‘is against Judaism in the Late Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries,” Studia Iranica, 34 (2005), 95-134. “Judeo-Persian Communities of Iran: V: Qajar period: Communities,” Encyclopedia Iranica, XV (2009), 108-117. “Jews in the Pre-Constitutional Years: The Shiraz Incident of 1905,” Iranian Studies, 43 (2010), 239-263. “Jews of Iran and Rabbinical Literature: Preliminary Notes,” AJS Perspectives, Fall 2010, 14-16. “Identity among the Jews of Iran,” in: Amanat, A and Vejdani, F (Eds.), Iran Facing Others: Identity Boundaries in a Historical Perspective (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), 219-242.

36tsadikim@gmail.com

Wilf campus - Furst Hall
Room#222

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Fall 2018
Elementary Arabic
SEM 5111

 

Jews in the Lands of Islam I
JHI 5335

 

Mod Arabic Texts on Jews/Jud
JHI 7600

 

Spring 2018
Elementary Arabic II
SEM 5112

 

Iranian Jewish Literature
JHI 6394

 

Jews in Muslim Lands III
JHI 5337

 

Fall 2017
Elementary Arabic
SEM 5111

 

Jews Mus lands 2: 16-19 Cent
JHI 5336

 

Jews of Iran: His Culture
JHI 6399

 

Spring 2017
Jews Judaism: Lands of Islam
JHI 5335

 

Jews in Muslim Lands
JHI 1430

 

Mod Arabic Texts on Jews/Jud
JHI 7600