Author: Daniel Lav

Daniel Lav is a lecturer in the Department of Arabic Language and Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His area of research is Islamic theology with a particular emphasis on the salafī tradition of Sunnī Islam, from Ibn Taymiyya (d. 1328 C.E.) to present-day salafī movements. To date his principal contributions to the research literature are two books on the intellectual history of salafism, premodern and modern: Radical Islam and the Revival of Medieval Theology(Cambridge, 2012) and Salafī Political Theology (Cambridge, 2025).