prof. dr. W.J. (Wout) van Bekkum

Semitic Languages and Cultures, Medieval Hebrew Language and Literature, Medieval Hebrew Poetry and Poetics, Judeo-Islamic culture, Judeo-Sufism, Middle Eastern Studies, translator Maimonides Guide for the Perplexed from Arabic into Dutch.

Member Royal Academy of Sciences; Member European Association of Jewish Studies; Member and Convener Medieval Hebrew Poetry Colloquia; Member Society for Judaeo-Arabic Studies; 2004 Fellow Wolfson College Cambridge, 2008 Fellow Japan Society of Jewish Studies.