Director, Professor of Jewish Studies
Office Location: HUM 418
Office Hours: Fall 07 only / M11-12 and W 3:40-4:40. Also by appointment.
Office Phone: 415.338.3152
Email: fastren@sfsu.edu
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Courses
Publications
Research Interests
Accademic Associations
Education
- Doctor
of Philosophy in Near Eastern Studies; December, 1993.
University of California, Berkeley, Department of Near Eastern Studies.
- Masterıs
Degree in Arabic; December, 1989.
University of California, Berkeley, Department of Near Eastern Studies.
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B.E.S. Degree (Bachelor of Elected Studies) in Medieval History;
June, 1979.
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Publications
- Karaite
Past and Jewish History, University of South Carolina
Press, Studies in Comparative Religion, Columbia, South Carolina
(2004). Book manuscript award from Koret Jewish Publications Program,
2000.
- Judaism
and Islam: Boundaries, Communication, and Interaction
(Editor, with Benjamin H. Hary and John L. Hayes), Festschrift
for William M. Brinner, E.J. Brill. Leiden, The Netherlands (2000).
- The
Jewish Printed Book in India: Imprints of the Blumenthal Rare
Book and Manuscript Library, The Judah L. Magnes Museum,
Berkeley, California (1992).
- Judaica, an Annotated Catalog from the Judah L. Magnes Museum and Library, The Image Bank for Teaching World Religions, Harvard University Center for the Study of World Religions, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and The Judah L. Magnes Museum, Berkeley, California (1991). Now published online at: http://www.hds.harvard.edu/cswr/publications/ImageBank/imagbank/annj-ann.htm .
Research Interests
- Karaite Jewish History and Religion
- Jews in the Islamic World
- The Islamization of the Middle East in the Middle Ages
- Sacred History in Western Traditions
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Courses
JS 310/710 Jewish Thought and Culture
JS 320 The Jewish Historical Experience
JS 410 Kabbalah & Mysticism in the Jewish Tradition
JS 415 The Hebrew Bible
JS 501 Judaism, Christianity and Islam
JS 632 Jewish History I - Beginnings to 1650
Jews, Diaspora and Identity
Biography of a City: Jerusalem
Islamic World I: The Near East, 500-1600 C.E.
Western Civilization I
Jewish Civilization in the Middle Ages
Introduction to Religion
Introduction to Judaism
Introduction to Islam
Academic Associations
- American Academy of Religion
- American Historical Association
- American Oriental Society
- Association for Jewish Studies
- Society for Biblical Literature
- Western Jewish Studies Association
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