Shiite studies at Hebrew universities

Yemeni Manuscript Tradition book is about Yemen texts and its role in the development of written manuscripts from the first century AD to the contemporary period. In this book Codicology, textual criticism and social and cultural history of Yemen in different periods have also been investigated. The authors of the book are "David Holenbreg", assistant professor in Princeton University and "Christopher Ravakh" director of National Library of Oriental Studies department in Berlin and "Zabineh Ashmytkeh", professor of Islamic and history studies of Princeton that they had published it in 2015 in English. Zaydi theology from the perspective of the East scholars is known as the Mu'tazilites heritage and many Mu'tazili manuscripts are also observed in Yemen libraries and have been attracted by Israel's universities' researchers. Ibn Hazm Al-Qurtubi's book, his life and controversial works are in a series of articles written by "Kamila Adang» Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies at Tel Aviv University from authors such as Zabineh Ashmytkeh about views of Ibn Hazm in Ash'arism and Mu'tazila, Lygh Chypman from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem about bibliography of second-handed sources.
Kamila Dang, who is specialist in dialogue between Islam and Judaism, provided his article as the first developments in the works of Ibn Hazm. He also has written a paper on Muslim and Jewish authors and the Hebrew Bible from Ibn Rabban to Ibn Hazm. Biblia Arabica is one of the most important studies by order of the DFG in Germany amounted to 6.1million euros to researchers at Tel Aviv University of Antin Humanities of the university and the Department of Arabic and Islamic studies headed by Kamila Adang and "Maria Polyak" of the Department of Cultural Hebrew Studies of Tel Aviv University in collaboration with the Zabineh Ashmytkeh of Princeton. The aim of this study was to analyze influence of Muslims from the Bible and the Koran's impact on the Arabic translation of the Gospel among Muslims, Christians and Jews in the middle Ages.
Other contributor to this great plan is "Alexander Trigger" Masters IN Israel. Trigger is one of writers connected with Hebrew University of Jerusalem that focused his studies on Islamic rationalism especially Mu'tazila and Shia. He received his doctorate from Yale University and is a native of St. Petersburg. Trigger published his book as origin of theology, by Oxford University Press in April 2014. He believes that Islamic theology is influenced by Christian theology in Iraq and Syria. As mentioned above the word of Shiite includes Shia Ithna Ashari, Zaidi and Ismaili that due to the rational characteristics have been considered by Jewish theologians from long time ago and most of the studies that are done in this area are to recognize the values of reason in Jewish theology and discourse in the contemporary period. Journal of Shi'i Studies is published under the supervision of Zabineh Ashmytkeh in cooperation with the Institute of Advanced Studies at Princeton University. The editors of this journal said the aims to publish it are as follows: "The aim of the publication of Shi'i Studies is to help exploration, evaluation and interpretation of different intellectual traditions in history of Shiite." Triangle of Princeton, Tel Aviv and Berlin has given speed to Studies of Shiite with the goal of discovering rational reserves. Zabineh Ashmytkeh is professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Berlin and Professor of Historical Studies at the Institute of Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel.
Ashmytkeh was born in 1964 in Germany and he has received a bachelor's degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Title of his doctoral thesis was "Public theological ideas". In 2002 due to compilation and publication of the book "theology, philosophy and mysticism in idea of Twelver Shiites" and the book "the ideas of Ibn Abi Jomhur Ehsaee" in the German language, he received award of Book of the Year Award from Islamic Republic of Iran. In 2003, he founded the project of Mu'tazili manuscripts and he has received funding from the German Fritz Thyssen Foundation. Until 2006, along with Tzvi Langrmn, professor of Bar-Ilan University in Tel Aviv, he had grant from the German - Israel Research Foundation for the study and implementation of information about Ibn Kamuneh. Langrmn is specialist at Jewish and Islamic affairs in Israel. German- Israel Research Foundation in Germany (CIF) was founded in 1986 to encourage partnership of Germany and Israeli teachers. Results of Ashmytkeh's studies was released entitled as "The Jewish philosopher of Baghdad, Ibn Kamuneh, and his works" in the series of "Islamic Iranian studies" from the Institute of Islamic Studies by Zabineh Ashmytkehand and "Reza Pour Javadi". Between 2005 and 2007, he had financial support from the Germany Foundation of Fritz Toussaint due to participation in the project of Mu'tazili manuscripts and in years 2005-2006, he was partner of Wilfred Madelung and a coordinator of research group of Mu'tazilism in Islam and Judaism attended in the project of Institute of Advanced Study of Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In March 2006, he was invited to Paris as visiting professor to see the School of Higher Studies in Paris for the project of Islamic polemics against Judaism.
Since 2009 so far, Ashmytkeh is a member of the board of directors of Islamic theosophy and philosophy Calendar that is published in cooperation with the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Philosophy of Iran. In 2009, He was also considered as a member of the organizing German - Israeli boundaries committee of the Science in Foundation of "Alexander von Humboldt" in Germany.
For five years, until 2013, he received 1/86 million euro funding from Research Council of Europe. The assistance has been paid to him under a project as "recognition of word rationalism in the middle of tenth to thirteenth centuries with the aim of supporting Iranian and European researchers. A part of the funding of the project was to support the Israeli researchers to identify the rational Mu'tazilites and Shiite sources of the tenth to thirteenth centuries. Ninth to twelfth centuries have been peak of formation of the word of Mu'tazilites and Jewish theologians using the Islamic intellectual discourse and the aim of this investment was to rehabilitate the word of wisdom in the reconstruction of Jewish theology and response to the rational needs of modern Jewish man. Ashmytkeh has published the book Kholaseh Al-nazar written by the Shiite and Mu'tazili author in 220 pages in 1385 by the Institute of Philosophy of Iran and Institute of Islamic Studies of the University of Berlin.
A series of Jewish writers such as "Eliot Kosgru" and "David Wolpe" and "Carol Balin" wrote in the introduction of the book "Jewish theology in the present age": "In every turning point in Jewish history, Jews have concluded that to continue their social life they require a dynamic theology." the ideological stagnation in Judaism result in their religious identity to be destroyed and accordingly the Jewish community will face serious challenges to deal with multiple ideas and ideologies.
Judaism in the middle Ages faced some issues that modern Judaism is not facing them in the current period. Jews at the time were mostly confronting religious problems and they resolved their religious problems based on the teachings of traditional rabbis. Issues such as the relationship between ethics and religion and adherence to the rule of the Jewish religion and the Office of Medical Ethics and things like them in the present age are of the issues that have occupied the minds of many Jews.