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1 [Located about 500 feet from All Souls, the King’s Arms is the oldest, and one of the largest and most frequented pubs in Oxford.]
2 Kohlberg, “The Attitude”; see also now Kohlberg, In Praise of the Few.
3 [Ármin Vámbéry (1832–1913), a Jewish convert to Islam and then Protestant Christianity, was a famous Turcologist, explorer, and spy, who taught Ignaz Goldziher at the University of Budapest, defended British imperialism, introduced Theodor Herzl to the Ottoman sultan, and authored a Turkish-German dictionary (1858) and a celebrated account of his Travels and Adventures in Central Asia (1864).]
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Etan Kohlberg
Etan Kohlberg (born Tel Aviv 1943) is Emeritus Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. He holds a BA and MA from the Hebrew University and a DPhil from the University of Oxford (1971). His scholarly activity focuses on medieval Islamic religious thought, with particular emphasis on Shī‘ī Islam. In numerous articles, he has described and analysed aspects of Shī‘ī faith and law, and has also dealt extensively with classical Shī‘ī literature. Additionally, he has contributed to the study of martyrdom (shahāda) in Islam. He is the author of several books, including A Medieval Muslim Scholar at Work: Ibn Ṭāwūs and his Library (Brill, 1992) and Revelation and Falsification: The Kitāb al-qirāʾāt of Aḥmad b. Muḥammad al-Sayyārī (with M. A. Amir-Moezzi, Brill, 2009). Chapters of his doctoral dissertation and a selection of his articles have been republished in In Praise of the Few: Studies in Shīʽī Thought and History, ed. A. Ehteshami (Brill, 2020). Kohlberg has played the piano from a young age and has performed with his wife, violinist Bat-Sheva Savaldi-Kohlberg. Their older son Ophir is an amateur violist and their younger son Yaron is an award-winning international pianist.