Charles H. Manekin (PhD, Columbia) is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Maryland, USA. He specializes in the history of philosophy, specifically medieval Jewish and Islamic philosophy, and the history of Hebrew logic. He is the author of books on Maimonides and Gersonides, translations of medieval Jewish philosophers, and the editor of several collections of articles. Together with Y. Tzvi Langermann and Hans Hinrich Biesterfeldt, he received a NEH Collaboration Grant for translating and updating Moritz Steinschneider's The Hebrew Translations of the Middle Age, vol. 1 of which has appeared (Springer, 2013).
