Ze’ev Maghen () is an Israeli scholar. He is a professor of

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history and chairman of the Department of Middle East Studies at

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. Maghen is also a senior fellow at the Begin-Sadat Institute for Strategic Studies, as well as the founder of the Middle East and Islamic Studies program at

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. Maghen’s areas of expertise include Revolutionary Iran,

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, the Islamic schism,

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and medieval Islamic jurisprudence. He has written three academic books – ''Virtues of the Flesh: Purity and Sexuality in Islamic Discourse'' (

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, 2005); ''After Hardship Cometh Ease: Classical Muslim Attitudes to Judaism and Jewish Law'' (

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, 2006); and ''Reading Revolutionary Iran'' (De Gruyter, 2023) as well as numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals on these subjects. His essay ''Eradicating the Little Satan: Why Iran Should Be Taken at its Word'' was the lead article in ''

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'' (January 2009) and his lengthy treatment ''Shiite Messianism and Iranian Foreign Policy'' was the lead article in

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(Spring, 2008). Maghen has written on

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and

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subjects, as well, and his essay ''Imagine: John Lennon and the Jews'' – published in six languages – has been published as a full length book.John Lennon and the Jews: A Philosophical Rampage, New York: Toby Press, 2014 Maghen is fluent in

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. He lectures regularly in the

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, as well as at universities and in other frameworks in the

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, the Arab World,

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. He lives with his wife and four children in Hod HaSharon. He served in the

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until his discharge from the reserves in 2005. He was the 1984 International Frisbee Golf Champion (Junior Division).

Selected articles

* “Much ado about Wuḍū’,” Der Islam, 76, Spring 1999, pp. 205-252. * “Close Encounters: Some Preliminary Observations on the Transmission of Impurity in Early Sunni Jurisprudence,” Islamic Law and Society, 6: 3, Summer, 1999, pp. 348–392. * "השעוביה החדשה: החייאת פולמוס ישן בקרב מתנגדי הרפובליקה האסלאמית באיראן", המזרח החדש, כרך מ"ב, תשס"א, עמ' 186-208. (Translation: “The New Shu‘biyah: The Revival of an Ancient Polemic by the Opposition to the Islamic Republic of Iran,” The New East, 42

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. * “Dead Tradition: Joseph Schacht and the Origins of ‘Popular Practice’,” Islamic Law and Society, 10: 3, Fall 2003, pp. 276-347 (as guest editor of this issue, I also wrote the introduction, pp. 267-275). * “First Blood: Purity, Edibility and the Independence of Islamic Jurisprudence,” Der Islam, 81, Spring 2004, pp. 49–95. * “Ritual Recycling: Abū’l-Ḥasan ‘Alī al-Māwardī and the Question of Second Hand Ablutions,” Bar-Ilan Studies in Arabic and Islamic Culture, 2, Spring 2006, pp. 121–168. * “Three Shāfi‘ites in Search of Water: The Indulgence of Tayammum and its Rigorous Preconditions,” Der Islam 82 (2005), pp. 291–348. * “Strangers and Brothers: The Ritual Status of Unbelievers in Islamic Law,” Medieval Encounters, 12/2 (2006), pp. 173–243. * “Intertwined Triangles: Remarks on the Relationship between Two Prophetic Scandals,” Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam, 33 (2007), pp. 17–92 (Winner of the “Tel-Aviv Prize” for Best Scholarly Article, 2006). * “See No Evil: Morality and Methodology in Ibn al-Qaṭṭān al-Fāsī’s Aḥkām al-Naẓar bī Ḥāssat al-Baṣar,” Islamic Law and Society, 14 (2007), 52 pp. * “The Merry Men of Medina: Comedy and Humanity in the Early Days of Islam,” Der Islam, 84 (2007), 74 pp. * “Occultation in Perpetuum: Shi‘ite Messianism and the Policies of the Islamic Republic,” Middle East Journal, 62 (2008), 34 pp. * “‘They shall not Draw Nigh’: The Access of Unbelievers to Sacred Space in Islamic and Jewish Law,” Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies, 12 (2007), 41 pp. * “From Potent Nemesis to Potemkin Village: A Shift in the Iranian Portrayal of the ‘Zionist Regime,’” Israel Affairs, 21 (2006), 27 pp. * “Davidic Motifs in the Biography of Muḥammad,” Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam, 34 (2008), pp. 91–139. * “That Nature which Contemns its Origin: A Controversial Teachers’ Examination Sheds Light on Transformations in Revolutionary Iranian Islam,” Harvard Middle Eastern and Islamic Review, 8 (2009), 43 pp. * “Unity and Hegemony: Iranian Attitudes to the Sunni-Shi‘i Divide,” in Tel-Aviv University’s Sunni-Shi‘ Relations Conference volume (eds. Meir Litvak and Ofra Bengio), 2010. * “Dancing in Chains: The Baffling Coexistence of Legalism and Exuberance in Judaic and Islamic Tradition,” in Judaic Sources in Western Thought: Jerusalem’s Enduring Presence (ed. Jon Jacobs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011). * “Jews (and Christians) for ‘Ali: Precedent and Prognostication in al-Majlisi’s Kitab al-Ihtijaj” (forthcoming in JIS)

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