Associate Director of the Division of Religious and Theological Studies

Assistant Professor of Religion

dnlobel@bu.edu

147 Bay State Road
Suite 507
Boston, MA 02215
Phone: 617-353-2863

• Judeo-Arabic Tradition
• Medieval Islamic World
• Sufi Mysticism on Jewish Thought

Publications:

Between Mysticism and Philosophy: Sufi Language of Religious Experience in Judah Ha-Levi's Kuzari, (Albany, 2000)

"A Dwelling Place for the Shekhinah " (Jewish Quarterly Review Vol. 90, 1-2 (1999)

"'Silence is Praise to You'": On Negative Theology, Looseness of Expression, and Religious Experience (American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly Volume 76, No. 1, Spring 2002).