Sarah Stroumsa

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]

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

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]

• Dawud ibn Marwan al-Muqammis's 'Ishrun Maqala (Etudes sur le judaisme medieval XIII, Leiden: Brill, 1989)
• With Daniel J. Lasker, The Polemic of Nestor the Priest: Qiṣṣat Mujādalat al- Usquf and Sefer Nestor ha-Komer (Jerusalem: Ben Zvi Institute, 1996), 2 Vols.
• The Beginnings of the Maimonidean Controversy in the East: Yosef Ibn Shimʿon's Silencing Epistle Concerning the Resurrection of the Dead (Jerusalem: Ben Zvi Institute, 1999; Hebrew).
• Freethinkers of Medieval Islam: Ibn al-Rāwandī, Abū Bakr al-Rāzī, and Their Impact on Islamic Thought (Islamic Philosophy and Theology XXXV; Leiden: Brill, 1999; Paperback edition 2016).
• With H. Ben-Shammai, E. Batat, S. Butbul, and D. Sklare, Judaeo-Arabic Manuscripts in the Firkovitch Collections: Yefet Ben ʿEli al-Basri, Commentary on Genesis, A Sample Catalogue (Jerusalem: Ben Zvi Institute, 2000; Hebrew).
• Maimonides in his World: Portrait of a Mediterranean Thinker (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009; Paperback edition, 2012).
• .(ירושלים: מאגנס, 2021ֿ), הרמב״ם בעולמו: דיוקנו של הוגה ים תיכוני
• Dāwūd al-Muqammaṣ, Twenty Chapters. The Judeo-Arabic text, transliterated into Arabic characters, with a parallel English translation, notes, and introduction (Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 2016).
• Andalus and Sefarad: On Philosophy and its History in Islamic Spain (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019).
• With Guy G. Stroumsa, Eine dreifältiger Schnur: Über Judentum, Christentum, und Islam in Geschichte und Wissenschaft / A Cord of Three Strands: On Judaism, Christianity and Islam in History and Scholarship (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck: 2020).
• .(ירושלים: מאגנס, תשפ״ג 2022), דאוד בן מרואן אלמקמץ, עשרים פרקים: תרגום מוער מערבית יהודית
• Théologie et philosophie au temps des Almohades (XIIe siècle de l’Ère commune) (Rabat: Académie du Royaume du Maroc, 2023).
• Das Kaleidoskop der Convivencia: Denktraditionen des Mittelalters im Austausch zwischen Islam, Judentum und Christentum (Blumenberg Vorlesungen 7; Freiburg: Herder, forthcoming 2023).