# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-dean-shulman
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:02:40.764Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-dean-shulman"
name: "David Dean Shulman"
slug: "david-dean-shulman"
description: "David Dean Shulman is an Israeli Indologist, poet and peace activist, known for his work on the history of religion in South India, Indian poetics, Tamil Islam, Dravidian linguistics, and Carnatic music. Bilingual in Hebrew and English, he has mastered Sanskrit, Tamil, Hindi, and Telugu, and reads Greek, Russian, French, German, Persian, Arabic and Malayalam. He was formerly Professor of Indian Studies and Comparative Religion at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and professor in the now defunct Department of Indian, Iranian and Armenian Studies. Presently he holds a chair as Renee Lang Professor of Humanistic Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He has been a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities since 1988."
tagline: "Israeli-American indologist, historian of religion, and poet"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/David_Shulman.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1949-01-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump