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About Joseph Sadan
- Joseph Sadan (born January 17, 1939) is emeritus professor of the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the Tel-Aviv University.
- He has also taught and research at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and research institutions in Europe.
- He also taught at Haifa University and Menashe College.
- Sadan studied at the Hebrew University (1958–1963) where he received his BA and MA degrees (Profs.
- Joshua Blau, Eliahu Ashtor, M.J.
- Kister and others).
- Between 1965 and 1969/70 he worked on his Ph.D.
- thesis at the Sorbonne in Paris (Profs.
- Claude Cahen, Charles Pellat and Jeanine Sourdel-Thomine).
- The subject of the dissertation was furniture in the Middle East in medieval times.
- In 1989 he was promoted to Full Professor and retired in 2007.
- He held the Irene Helmus Chair for Arabic Literature until October 2009.
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