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Daniella Talmon-Heller is Senior Lecturer in the department of Middle East Studies at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. She is the author of Islamic Piety in Medieval Syria: Mosques, Cemeteries and Sermons under the Zangids and Ayyubids (Brill, 2007), which won the 2008 Tel Aviv Book award for research on Middle East History. She is 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 of the medieval Middle East, Islamic thought and practice, and comparative religion.
"[...] clearly provides a deep immersion into medieval Muslim society and an understanding of the foundations of Islam in the modern world.--Andrew Petersen, University of Wales Trinity Saint David ""Bustan: The Middle East Book Review, 2021, Vol. 12, No. 1"" [...] it is not difficult to affirm that Talmon-Heller has made a major contribution to two (not so) peripheral themes in the framework of sacred spaces and times. She has done valuable work in exploring them in such an all-encompassing way that scholars in the area of Islamic Studies, religious anthropology and philosophy of religion will need to give her work serious consideration.--Patriarca Giovanni, University of Bayreuth ""Politics, Religion & Ideology, 22:2,"" A splendid and much needed analysis of how notions of sancitity were translated into time and space. Talmon-Heller musters an impressive range of sources to reconstruct what sacred time and sacred space meant to Muslim communities in the pre-Ottoman Middle East.-- ""Konrad Hirschler, Freie Universit�t Berlin"" Sacred Space and Sacred Time makes important contributions to Islamic studies and to History of Religions debates on the sanctity of time and space. It is well-documented, offers fresh reflections on the thought of certain authors whose ideas have been widely studied (Ibn Taymiyya, Ibn al-Ḥajj al-ʿAbdarī), and analyzes numerous others whose writings remain understudied.--Linda G. Jones, Pompeu Fabra University ""Medieval Encounters 28 (2022)"""
