The Natural Language of Maimonides and His Contemporaries

Dr. Raphael Dascalu A native of Sydney, Raphael Dascalu pursued graduate studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem alongside yeshiva studies and completed his PhD at the University of Chicago. His research focuses on the history of philosophy and mysticism, particularly among Jews in the medieval Islamic world. He is an Adjunct Research Associate at Monash University, and coordinator of the Jewish-Muslim Forum at Monash. He is in Oxford for Trinity Term, during which he is co-coordinating the Seminar in Advanced Jewish Studies at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies with Prof. Paul Fenton.