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DANIELLA TALMON-HELLER is an associate professor at the department of Middle East Studies at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, director of the Center for the Study of Conversion and Inter-Religious Encounters (CSoC), and 2021-2 fellow at the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies. She is the author of Islamic Piety in Medieval Syria (Brill 2007) - winner of 2008 Tel Aviv Book Award for Research of the History of the Middle East, and Sacred Place and Sacred Time in the Medieval Islamic Middle East (Edinburgh University Press 2020), and co-editor, with Katia Cytryn-Silverman, of Material Evidence and Narrative Sources: Interdisciplinary Studies of the History of the Muslim Middle East (Brill 2014). Her research interests include the history and historiography of the medieval Middle East, Islamic thought and practice, and comparative religion. Currently, she is working on an ISF-supported research project entitled: Sacred Scriptures as Sacred Objects: The Material Qur'an in the Medieval Middle East. For a full list of publications please see https://bgu.academia.edu/DaniellaTalmonHeller
External positions
Fellow, Samuel Neaman Institute for Advanced Studies in Science and Technology
1 Jul 2021 → 1 Sep 2021
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Courts and Qurʾāns: “ʿUthmānī” Codices from the Caliph's Residence in Medina to Topkapı Palace in Istanbul
Talmon-Heller, D., 1 Jan 2025, (Accepted/In press) In: Al-Masaq.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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צלאח אל-דין: מקורות ביניימים ומיתוסים מודרניים
טלמון-הלר, ד., Jul 2023, In: ג'מאעה. כ"ו, p. 47-78Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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al-ʿAlāʾī, Khalīl b. Kaykaldī
Talmon-Heller, D., Sep 2022, Encyclopaedia of Islam Three Online. Fleet, K., Krämer, G., Matringe, D., Nawas, J. & J. Stewart, D. (eds.). 3 ed. BrillResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary › peer-review
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Islamic Pilgrimage in the Middle East: An Overview
Talmon-Heller, D., Dec 2022, Pilgrimage Through the Ages in Religious and Non-Religious Context . Taggar Cohen, A. & B. Cohen, D. (eds.). 1st ed. Doshisha University, Vol. 11. p. 48-65 18 p. (CISMOR - Conference on Jewish Studies ).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Maqdisī
Talmon-Heller, D., Apr 2022, Encyclopaedia of Islam Three Online. Fleet, K., Krämer, G., Matringe, D., Nawas, J. & J. Stewart, D. (eds.). 3 ed. BrillResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary › peer-review
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Anecdotes about Conversion in Twelfth-Century Syria: Shams al-Dīn al-Dhahabī (d. 748/1348), Ibn Rajab (d. 795/1393), and D.iyāʾ al-Dīn al-Maqdisī (d. 643/1245)
Talmon-Heller, D., 15 Dec 2020, Conversion to Islam in the Premodern Age: A Sourcebook. Hurvitz, N., Sahner, C. C., Simonsohn, U. & Yarbrough, L. (eds.). California: University of California Press, p. 205-209 5 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Sacred place and sacred time in the medieval Islamic Middle East: A historical perspective
Talmon-Heller, D., 18 Mar 2020, Edinburgh University Press. 279 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
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Historiography in the service of the mufti: Ibn taymiyya on the origins and fallacies of ziyarat
Talmon-Heller, D., 1 Jan 2019, In: Islamic Law and Society. 26, 3, p. 227-251 25 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Job (Ayyūb), Ḥusayn and Saladin in Late Ottoman Palestine: The Memoirs of Nuʻmān al-Qasatli, the Arab Scribe of the Survey of Western Palestine
Talmon-Heller, D., Feb 2019, Exploring the Holy Land: 150 Years of the Palestine Exploration Fund. Gurevich, D. & Kidron, A. (eds.). Equinox Publishing, p. 124-150 27 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Religious innovation under fatimid rule: Jewish and muslim rites in eleventh-century Jerusalem
Talmon-Heller, D. & Frenkel, M., 1 Jan 2019, In: Medieval Encounters. 25, 3, p. 203-226 24 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
6 Scopus citations
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:Sacred Scriptures as Sacred Objects The Material Qur'an in the Medieval Middle East
Talmon-Heller, D. (PI)
1/01/21 → 1/01/24
Project: Research
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:Sacred Scriptures as Sacred ObjectsThe Material Qur'an in the Medieval Middle East
Talmon-Heller, D. (PI)
1/01/21 → 31/12/23
Project: Research
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The Sanctification of Space, Time and Object in the Muslim Middle East (7th-15th centuries)
Talmon-Heller, D. (PI)
1/01/15 → 31/12/18
Project: Research
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The Formation of Muslim Society in Palestine (ca. C.E. 600-1500)
Amitai, R. (PI), Milstein, R. R. (CoPI), Elad, A. A. (CoPI), Ellenblum, R. R. (CoPI) & Talmon-Heller, D. (CoPI)
1/01/09 → 31/12/12
Project: Research