Etan Kohlberg

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Etan Kohlberg is a professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Etan Kohlberg
Etan Kohlberg.jpg
Born
Tel-Aviv
OccupationProfessor

Biography

Prof. Etan Kohlberg was born in Tel-Aviv and spent his childhood learning music especially through violin. Kohlberg’s father was a pharmacist and he married a violinist named Bat-Sheva Savaldi-Kohlberg. The couple had a son in 1983, Yaron Kohlberg who is an international pianist.

Career

  • Professor, Hebrew University, (1991-Present)
  • Head of the Institute of Asian and African Studies, Hebrew University, (1987-1989)
  • Associate Professor, Hebrew University, (1983-1991)
  • Senior Lecturer, Hebrew University, (1976-1983)
  • Lecturer, Hebrew University, (1972-1976)

Education

  • Doctorate, Oxford University, 1971
  • Master of Arts, Hebrew University, 1968
  • Bachelor of Arts, Hebrew University, 1966

Academic Activities

  • Taught at Yale University
  • Research Assistant, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey
  • Member, Israel Academy of Sciences

Books

  • In Praise of the Few: Studies in Shiite Thought and History: Shii Islam: Texts and Studies, Brill Academic Publications, 2020
  • Medieval Muslim Scholar at Work: Ibn Tawus and His Library: Ibn Ṭāwūs and His Library: Islamic Philosophy, Theology, & Science, Brill Academic Publications, 1992
  • Shi'ism (The Formation of the Classical Islamic World), Routledge, 2003
  • Belief and Law in Imami Shi’ism, Aldershot Variorum, 1991

Articles

  •  “The Development of the Imami Shi’i Doctrine of jihad”, Journal of the German Oriental Society vol. 126 no. 1, 1976, p. 64-86
  •  “From Imāmiyya to Ithnā-‘Ashariyya”, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies vol. 39, 1976, p. 521-534.

Honors

  • Rothschild Prize for Humanities, 2008
  • EMET Prize for Oriental Studies, 2008

Sources