| | | | Rabbi Firestone is Professor of Medieval Jewish and Islamic Studies,
HUC-JIR/Los Angeles and is a senior fellow of the Center for Religion
and Civic Culture at the University of Southern California. He is
co-director of the Center for Muslim-Jewish Engagement, a joint project
of HUC-JIR, USC, and the Omar Ibn Al-Khattab Foundation
(www.usc.edu/cmje). Prior to joining the HUC-JIR faculty, he taught at
Boston University and was Yad Hanadiv Research Fellow at the Hebrew
University. He received a Center for Arabic Study Abroad (CASA) III
research fellowship for the Spring 2006 semester for study at the
American University of Cairo, funded by the Fulbright Binational
Committee in Egypt and the U.S. Department of Education. In 2000 he was
awarded a fellowship for independent research from the National
Endowment for the Humanities, and was chosen to be a fellow of the
Institute for Advanced Jewish Studies at the University of Pennsylvania
in 2002. Professor Firestone has written seven books and over seventy
scholarly articles on early Islam and its relationship with Jews and
Judaism, scriptural interpretation of the Bible and Qur'an, and the
phenomenon of holy war.
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