Contributors
Efrat E. Aviv completed her doctoral studies in the Department of Middle East-
ern Studies at Bar-Ilan University. She specializes in Turkish studies. Her dis-
sertation was entitled “Fethullah Gülen—A Religious Leader and an Ideologist
in Turkey of the 1980s and the 1990s.” She received her master’s degree in Jewish
history from Bar-Ilan University in 2002 (Magna cum laude). Her thesis was en-
titled “Community, Culture, and Feminism: The Jewish Community of Izmir on
the Eve of the ‘Young Turk Revolution,’ 1899–1908.” She teaches Turkish and Ot-
toman history at Bar-Ilan University and is conducting her postdoctoral research
at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies (BESA) on the Bar-Ilan campus.
She has published articles on Turkish affairs in Israeli newspapers and translated
Turkish poetry into Hebrew.
Leigh N. Chipman is a historian of medieval Islamic medicine, specializing in the
twelfth through fifteenth centuries ce. She received her PhD from the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem in 2006 and held a Kreitman Postdoctoral Fellowship
at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba, Israel, during 2006–2008. In
addition to her doctoral research, which focused on pharmacy and pharmacists
in Mamluk Cairo, Leigh has worked extensively on the medical material of the
Cairo Genizah. She is currently working on a study of an early commentary on
Ibn Sina’s al-Qanun fi al-tibb, Qutb al-Din Shirazi’s al-Tuhfa al-sa ̔diyya, which
will shed further light on the medical history of Il-khanid Iran.
Yehoshua Frenkel, PhD, teaches Medieval Islamic history at the University of
Haifa. His recent publications include “Public Projection of Power in Mamluk Bi-
lad al-Sham,” Mamluk Studies Review 11, no. 1 (2007): 39–54; and “Women in Late
Mamluk Damascus in Light of Audience Certificates (sama ̔at) of Ibn Mibrad,”
in Egypt and Syria in the Fatimid, Ayyubid, and Mamluk Eras, ed. U. Vermeulen
(Peeters, 2006), 409–23.