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Sarah Stroumsa
Sarah Stroumsa (Hebrew: שרה סטרומזה; born 1950) is the Alice and Jack Ormut Professor Emerita of Arabic Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She received her academic education at the Hebrew University, as well as at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris. She taught in the Department of Arabic Language and Literature and the Department of Jewish Thought at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she served as Vice-Rector and then as Rector. She was a Visiting Professor at Harvard, Chicago, Michigan, Paris, and Münster.
Her academic focus is the history of philosophical and theological thought in Arabic in the early Islamic Middle Ages and the medieval Judeo-Arabic culture. In her philologically based work, she strives to offer a multifocal approach to the study of intellectual history.
Prof. Stroumsa served as the President of the Society for Judeo-Arabic Studies. She is a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities as well as of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, the American Philosophical Society, and an associate member of the Academy of the Kingdom of Morocco. In 2025 she was a recipient of the order Pour le Mérite.
After earning her B.A, Stroumsa joined the faculty at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1977. By 1999, she was appointed to Full professor and later sat as Vice-Rector of the University from 2003 until 2006.
In 2003, she was named the Alice and Jack Ormut Professor of Arabic Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. A few years later, she became the first woman to serve as Rector of the Hebrew University. The year after her promotion, Stroumsa was the recipient of the Italian Solidarity Award. During her tenure as Rector, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem jumped from 72nd to 57th on the World Universities Ranking list. She also helped establish the University's first Muslim prayer room.
After ending her tenure as Rector, she was the recipient of a Research Grant from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for a Research Project at Freie Universität Berlin. In 2018, Stroumsa and her husband earned the 2018 Leopold Lucas Prize.
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Stroumsa is married to Guy Stroumsa and they have two daughters.
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Sarah Stroumsa
Sarah Stroumsa (Hebrew: שרה סטרומזה; born 1950) is the Alice and Jack Ormut Professor Emerita of Arabic Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She received her academic education at the Hebrew University, as well as at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris. She taught in the Department of Arabic Language and Literature and the Department of Jewish Thought at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she served as Vice-Rector and then as Rector. She was a Visiting Professor at Harvard, Chicago, Michigan, Paris, and Münster.
Her academic focus is the history of philosophical and theological thought in Arabic in the early Islamic Middle Ages and the medieval Judeo-Arabic culture. In her philologically based work, she strives to offer a multifocal approach to the study of intellectual history.
Prof. Stroumsa served as the President of the Society for Judeo-Arabic Studies. She is a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities as well as of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, the American Philosophical Society, and an associate member of the Academy of the Kingdom of Morocco. In 2025 she was a recipient of the order Pour le Mérite.
After earning her B.A, Stroumsa joined the faculty at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1977. By 1999, she was appointed to Full professor and later sat as Vice-Rector of the University from 2003 until 2006.
In 2003, she was named the Alice and Jack Ormut Professor of Arabic Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. A few years later, she became the first woman to serve as Rector of the Hebrew University. The year after her promotion, Stroumsa was the recipient of the Italian Solidarity Award. During her tenure as Rector, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem jumped from 72nd to 57th on the World Universities Ranking list. She also helped establish the University's first Muslim prayer room.
After ending her tenure as Rector, she was the recipient of a Research Grant from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for a Research Project at Freie Universität Berlin. In 2018, Stroumsa and her husband earned the 2018 Leopold Lucas Prize.
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Stroumsa is married to Guy Stroumsa and they have two daughters.
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