Ehud
Krinis
Ben-Gurion University
Dalck and Rose Feith Family Fellowship
Research Topic
Ismāʻīlī-Shīʻī Literature and Thirteenth-Century Spanish Kabbalah
Bio
Ehud Krinis is currently a research assistant at Ben Gurion University in the department of Jewish Thought. He has been Fellow at the Scholion Center of the Hebrew University, where he studied the connections between Jewish and Islamic thought. His The Idea of the Chosen People in Judah Halevi’s Kuzari and Its Origins in the Shī'ī Imām Doctrine is forthcoming. This year, Krinis researches Shi’ite influence on medieval Jewish mysticism.
