Sara Sviri (Hebrew: שרה סבירי) is an Israeli scholar and translator noted for her research on Sufi mystical thought, an area she has researched since the 1970s and 1980s.[1][2]

Biography edit

Sviri received her doctorate in 1980 from Tel Aviv University. Her doctoral thesis explored the thought of the Sufi master al-Hakim al-Tirmidhi.[1][3]

She is a professor emerita of the Department of Arabic and the Department of Comparative Religions at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.[4]

Books edit

  • Perspectives on Early Islamic Mysticism: The World of Al-Ḥakīm Al-Tirmidhī and His Contemporaries (2003)
  • The Taste of Hidden Things: Images on the Sufi Path (1997)

References edit

  1. ^ a b Khudoyberdiyevich, Doniyorov Alisher, and Nodir Karimov Rakhmonkulovich. "The contribution of sarah sviri to the study of the scientific heritage of hakim tirmidhi." ACADEMICIA: An International Multidisciplinary Research Journal 8, no. 11 (2018): 60-67.
  2. ^ Abdel-Latif, Sara. "Mystical Qur’anic Exegesis and the Canonization of Early Sufis in Sulamī’s “Ḥaqāʾiq al-Tafsīr”." International Journal of Religion & Spirituality in Society 6, no. 4 (2016).
  3. ^ Ryce-Menuhin, Joel, ed. Jung and the monotheisms: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Psychology Press, 1994.
  4. ^ Sara Sviri, Academia.edu

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