About Sara Sviri
Born 1942. Sara Sviri is an Israeli translator, religious studies scholar and arabist.
Sara Sviri is an Israeli scholar and translator noted for her research on Sufi mystical thought, an area she has researched since the 1970s and 1980s.
Biography Sviri received her doctorate in 1980 from Tel Aviv University. Her doctoral thesis explored the thought of the Sufi master al-Hakim al-Tirmidhi.
She is a professor emerita of the Department of Arabic and the Department of Comparative Religions at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Books 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)
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Israeli translator and scholar
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Sara Sviri was born in 1942 in Haifa.
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Sara Sviri is a translator, religious studies scholar and arabist.
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