David Dean Shulman

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1949 –

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Who is David Dean Shulman?

David Dean Shulman is an Indologist and regarded as one of the world’s foremost authorities on the languages of India. His research embraces many fields, including the history of religion in South India, Indian poetics, Tamil Islam, Dravidian linguistics, and Carnatic music. He is also a published poet in Hebrew, a literary critic, a cultural anthropologist, and a peace activist. He was formerly Professor of Indian Studies and Comparative Religion at The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and professor in the Department of Indian, Iranian and Armenian Studies, and now holds an appointment as Renee Lang Professor of Humanistic Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He has authored or co-authored more than 20 books on various subjects ranging from temple myths and temple poems to essays that cover the wide spectrum of the cultural history of South India.

Bilingual in Hebrew and English, he has mastered Sanskrit, Hindi, Tamil and Telugu, and reads Greek, Russian, French, German, Persian, Arabic and Malayalam. He is married to Eileen Shulman and has three sons, Eviatar, Micheal, and Edan.

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Born
Jan 13, 1949
Waterloo
Also known as
  • David Shulman
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • Bachelor of Arts, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    History of Islam
    (Specialized in Arabic literature)
    ( - 1971)
  • Doctorate, SOAS, University of London
    Sanskrit Language
    (1972 - 1976)
  • Tamil Language
Lived in
  • Israel
    (1976 - )

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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