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- etzfadya@iu.edu
Dr. Ezra Tzfadya is both a policy, advocacy, and interreligious dialogue practitioner, and an academic expert on modern and medieval Shia Islamic and Jewish political theology. For the last 3+ years, he has lead CSME's program "Shia Islamic and Jewish Legal Reasoning in Dialogue." His current research centers comparatively on the notions of catastrophe, resistance, and exile in Shia Islamic and Jewish exegesis, literature, and cultural memory. He completed his dissertation "Theocracy in Shia Islam and Judaism: Studies in Legal Theology " at the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, comparing concepts of religious and political leadership in the two traditions. He is also the translator of Islamic Philosophy and the Crisis of Modernity: Leo Strauss's Relationship with al-Fārābī, Avicenna, and Averroes. (Albany: SUNY Press, 2024).
Ezra comes to CSME following terms as the Reitman Professor of Jewish Studies at Rutgers-New Brunswick and as Iran Policy Fellow Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies ( 2021) . In foreign policy, he also worked as the New York Field Director at J Street and as the Schonfeld Fellow at the American Jewish Committee's Berlin office, as well as Track 2/1.5 dialogue.
For access to his publications see: https://indiana.academia.edu/EzraTzfadya