Camilla Adang (born 1960) is aDutch associate professor ofIslamic studies atTel Aviv University inTel Aviv,Israel.[1]
Adang was born inBussum,Netherlands in 1960.[2][3] Adang completed her doctorate in Islamic studies atRadboud University Nijmegen inNijmegen.[3]
Adang was a fellow at theNetherlands Institute for Advanced Study inWassenaar from September 2009 to June 2010. While there, she published a number of works on the life of Medieval Andalusian theologianIbn Hazm and his views.[3][4] During this time, she also contributed to a book on inter-religious polemics and rational theology. Adang was also a fellow atThe Woolf Institute inCambridge as of 2011. During this time, she delivered a seminar on Muslim-Jewish polemics in Medieval Spain which was noted for Adang's definition of MuslimFatwas are merely legal verdicts, rather than "death sentences" as popularly portrayed in the media,[5] in addition to chairing a roundtable discussion of linguistic influences on Judeo-Muslim exchanges.[6]
Adang has also written multiple encyclopedia articles and research papers on Muslim-Jewish polemics.[7]
