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JIMES Faculty Accomplishments

Sarah Ifft Decker

Publications
Ifft Decker, Sarah. 2022. Routledge.

Ifft Decker, Sarah. 2022. “.” In Bloomsbury Medieval Studies. Bloomsbury Publishing.

Conferences
“Contracts in a Time of Crisis: Jewish Family Law and Notarial Culture in Fourteenth-Century Catalonia,”&Բ;57th , virtual, May 9-14, 2022

“‘As in the Hebrew Contract’: Jewish Law, Christian Notaries, and Documentary Culture in Medieval Catalonia,” , Jews and Law in the Middle Ages and Early Modernity, University of Pennsylvania, virtual, April 25, 2022

“‘You Void All the Ordinances of the Communities’: Jewish Court Shopping and Communal Authority in the Medieval Crown of Aragon,” New Orleans, LA, January 6-9, 2022 

“Contracts in Translation: Jewish Family Law and Notarial Culture in the Medieval Crown of Aragon,” , Chicago, IL, December 19-21, 2021

“Invisible Jews and Jewish Monsters: Jews and Jewishness in Medieval-Inspired Films,” , virtual, November 4-6, 2021


Raissa A. von Doetinchem de Rande

Publications
von Doetinchem de Rande, Raissa A. “Is the ṭr Mutable?  A Reformist Conception of Human Perfection in Shāh Walī Allāh´s Ḥujjat Allāh al-Bāligha,” in (Nov. 2021), pp. 1-23.
 

Conferences
Invited to speak at a Collegium in Honor of Wael Hallaq at Yale Law School.

Gave a talk on “The Study of Islamic Ethics and the Long Shadow of George F. Hourani” at the (Orange County, CA).

Other Accomplishments

Became secretary-treasurer for the and served on the program committee of said society.
 

John Kaltner

Publications
Kaltner, John. “Deuteronomy and Islam.”  Edited by Don C. Benjamin (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming).

Kaltner, John. “Nakedness.” In volume 20 of . Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2022.

Book Reviews
D. Ferree Womack, Neighbors: Christians and Muslims Building Community in Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology 25/4 (November, 2021), 359-360.  

M. E. Pregill, The Golden Calf between Bible and Qur’an in Horizons 48/2 (December, 2021), 531-532.


Esen Kirdiş

Publications
Kirdiş, Esen. 2022. “Revisiting Religious Economy Models: The Decline of Religious Engagement among Turkish Youth.” 137 (1): 73-97. 

Kirdiş, Esen. 2021. “Islamic Populism in Turkey.” 12(9): 752-765.

Conferences
Chair & Presenter, “The Rise of Religious Disengagement Amongst the Arab Youth: Egypt, Morocco, and Tunisia” Presented at the (MSA) Annual 2022 Meeting, Lisbon, Portugal.

Presenter, “Islamic Parties and their Religious Contenders.” Presented at the 2022 Meeting, San Antonio, TX.

Other Accomplishments

Division co-chair for Religion & Politics section at the 2022 Conference


Etty Terem

Publications
Terem, Etty. 2021. “,”&Բ;Journal of North African Studies 26(6): 1-26.

Conferences
Presenter, “What is Moroccan Islam? Reflections on the history, uses and materializations of a concept” June 8-10, 2022 NIMAR International Symposium, (Rabat, Morocco)

Presenter, Symposium at the Department of Middle Eastern and African History, Tel Aviv University 23-24 May 2022 (Tel Aviv, Israel)