JIMES Faculty Accomplishments

Sarah Ifft Decker

Publications
Ifft Decker, Sarah. 2022. Jewish Women in the Medieval World, 500–1500 CE. Routledge.

Ifft Decker, Sarah. 2022. “Introduction to the Global History of Gender and Identity in the Middle Ages.” In Bloomsbury Medieval Studies. Bloomsbury Publishing.

Conferences
“Contracts in a Time of Crisis: Jewish Family Law and Notarial Culture in Fourteenth-Century Catalonia,” 57th International Congress on Medieval Studies, virtual, May 9-14, 2022

“‘As in the Hebrew Contract’: Jewish Law, Christian Notaries, and Documentary Culture in Medieval Catalonia,” Katz Center Spring Colloquium, 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,” 135th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, New Orleans, LA, January 6-9, 2022 

“Contracts in Translation: Jewish Family Law and Notarial Culture in the Medieval Crown of Aragon,” Association for Jewish Studies 53rd Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, December 19-21, 2021

“Invisible Jews and Jewish Monsters: Jews and Jewishness in Medieval-Inspired Films,” Medievalism Today: 36th Annual Conference on Medievalism, virtual, November 4-6, 2021


Raissa A. von Doetinchem de Rande

Publications
von Doetinchem de Rande, Raissa A. “Is the Fiṭra Mutable?  A Reformist Conception of Human Perfection in Shāh Walī Allāh´s Ḥujjat Allāh al-Bāligha,” in The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (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 Society for the Study of Muslim Ethics, Annual Meeting (Orange County, CA).

Other Accomplishments

Became secretary-treasurer for the Society of the Study of Muslim Ethics and served on the program committee of said society.
 

John Kaltner

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

Kaltner, John. “Nakedness.” In volume 20 of The Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception. 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.” Political Science Quarterly 137 (1): 73-97. 

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

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

Presenter, “Islamic Parties and their Religious Contenders.” Presented at the Southern Political Science Association (SPSA) 2022 Meeting, San Antonio, TX.

Other Accomplishments

Division co-chair for Religion & Politics section at the American Political Science Association (APSA) 2022 Conference


Etty Terem

Publications
Terem, Etty. 2021. “Muslim Men, European Hats: A Fatwa on Cultural Imitation in a Global Age,” 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)