Sarah Stroumsa

Sarah Stroumsa (1950) is the Alice and Jack Ormut Professor of Arabic Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She has contributed several investigations into Jewish and Arabic scholastic philosophy. In 2021 she was elected to the American Philosophical Society.[1]

Sarah Stroumsa
שרה סטרומזה
Born1950 (age 72–73)
Haifa, Israel
SpouseGuy Stroumsa
Academic background
EducationB.A., PhD., The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Thesisדאוד אבן מרואן אלמקמץ וחיבורו ״עשרון מקאלה״ (1983)
Academic work
InstitutionsThe Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Websitepluto.huji.ac.il/~stroums/index.htm

Career

After earning her B.A, Stroumsa joined the faculty at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1977.[2] By 1999, she was appointed to Full professor and later sat as Vice-Rector of the University from 2003 until 2006.[3]

In 2003, she was named the Alice and Jack Ormut Professor Emerita of Arabic Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.[4] A few years later, she became the first woman to serve as Rector of the Hebrew University.[5] The year after her promotion, Stroumsa was the recipient of the Italian Solidarity Award.[6] During her tenure as Rector, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem jumped from 72nd to 57th on the World Universities Ranking list.[7] She also helped establish the University's first Muslim prayer room.[8]

After ending her tenure as Rector, she was the recipient of a Research Grant from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for a Research Project at Freie Universität Berlin.[4] In 2018, Stroumsa and her husband earned the 2018 Leopold Lucas Prize.[9]

Personal life

Stroumsa is married to Guy Stroumsa and they have two daughters.[10]

Published work

Regarding Maimonides, she insists that Leo Strauss's 'dichotomy of esoteric versus exoteric writing does not do justice to Maimonides’ context-sensitive rhetoric,’ claiming instead that he "‘plays a double game’, reconciling and integrating dualities through the constant, creative interplay between Arabic and Hebrew, Islamic and Jewish culture."[11]

  • Stroumsa, Sarah (November 2009). Maimonides in His World: Portrait of a Mediterranean Thinker. Princeton. ISBN 978-0-691-13763-6.
  • Sarah Stroumsa, Dawud ibn Marwan al-Muqammis's 'Ishrun Maqala (Etudes sur le judaisme medieval XIII, Leiden: Brill, 1989)

References
  1. "The American Philosophical Society Welcomes New Members for 2021".
  2. "New Hebrew University rector aims for out of the box thinking". israel21c.org. ISRAEL21c. 11 December 2008. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
  3. "האישה הראשונה בתפקיד הרקטור" (in Hebrew). Makor Rishon. 27 June 2008. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
  4. "Israeli Professor of Arabic Studies, Sarah Stroumsa, Receives Research Grant from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for a Research Project at Freie Universität Berlin". fu-berlin.de. 1 February 2013. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
  5. Diana Guy Nir (7 July 2008). "לראשונה: מונתה רקטורית באוניברסיטה העברית". Globes (in Hebrew). Retrieved 5 November 2019.
  6. "הנשיא האיטלקי העניק את עיטור הסולידריות האיטלקי לרקטור האוניברסיטה פרופ' שרה סטרומזה ולפרופ' שלמה אבינרי". huji.ac.il (in Hebrew). July 7, 2009. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
  7. ""שרה סטרומזה, האוניברסיטה העברית עלתה בדירוג רק בזכות מדליית פילדס?"" (in Hebrew). Haaretz. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
  8. Allman, Roy (23 December 2010). "מסגד נחנך באוניברסיטה העברית" (in Hebrew). Retrieved 5 November 2019.
  9. "2018 Leopold Lucas Prize for Guy and Sarah Stroumsa". idw-online.de. 2018. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
  10. Rocker, Simon (May 27, 2010). "The Israeli who's taken Abraham to Oxford". thejc.com. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
  11. Nirenberg, David (September 23, 2010). "Double Game: Review of "Maimonides in his World" by Sarah Stroumsa". London Review of Books. 32 (18): 31–32. ISBN 978-0-691-13763-6.
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