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Camilla Adang is a Professor of Islamic Studies in the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Tel Aviv University, Faculty of Humanities. She is a leading scholar in the field of medieval Islamic intellectual history, with a particular focus on Muslim-Jewish relations, Islamic perceptions of the Bible, and the works of Ibn Hazm of Córdoba.
Her research interests include Islamic law, Qur'anic studies, Bible in Arabic, Arab Christian studies, Mu'tazilism, takfir, and the intellectual history of Muslim Iberia. Her scholarship examines how Muslim scholars engaged with biblical texts, polemicized against Jews and Christians, and developed theological doctrines in response to religious diversity. She has extensively studied the transmission and reception of religious texts in the Islamicate world, especially the Arabic Bible among Jews, Christians, and Muslims.
The most recent articles in her body of work reflect a consistent focus on religious polemics, textual criticism, and the intellectual debates of the medieval Islamic world. She frequently analyzes how Muslim scholars critiqued the Bible and Jewish or Christian doctrines, while also exploring internal Islamic theological disputes, the authority of religious knowledge, and the transmission of sacred texts. Her publications often involve critical editions, translations, and contextual analyses of understudied texts.
Camilla Adang has collaborated extensively with Sabine Schmidtke and other leading scholars in the field. She has edited and authored numerous books, including Muslim Writers on Judaism and the Hebrew Bible, Muslim Perceptions and Receptions of the Bible, and Ibn Ḥazm of Cordoba: The Life and Works of a Controversial Thinker. Her work is central to understanding religious interactions and intellectual developments in the pre-modern Islamic world.
She has presented on topics related to Patricia Crone’s legacy and contributed to discussions on the historiography of early Islam. Her research continues to be highly active, with publications appearing as recently as 2024.
