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Reuven Amitai | Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies

Reuven Amitai

Reuven Amitai
Reuven
Amitai
Eliyahu Elath Professor for the History of the Muslim Peoples
Professor in the Dept. of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
Humanities Building, Room 5134. Office Hours: Tuseday, 15:30-16:30

Specializes in the history of the pre-modern Islamic world and the adjacent areas. Most of his publications have centered on the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt and Syria, the Mongol Ilkhanate of Iran and the surrounding countries, and the history of medieval Palestine. From 2010 to 2014, Reuven Amitai was dean of the Faculty of Humanities at the Hebrew University. From 2014 to 2016 he was a senior fellow at the University of Bonn, at the "Annemarie Schimmel Kolleg: History and Society during the Mamluk Era (1250-1517)".

He is currently the chairperson of the Library Authority at the Hebrew University. His recent publications include Holy War and Rapprochement: Studies in the Relations between the Mamluk Sultanate and the Mongol Ilkhanate (1260-1335) (Brepols, 2013); co-edited with Michal Biran: Nomads as Agents of Cultural Change: The Mongols and Their Eurasian Predecessors (University of Hawaii Press, 2015); and co-edited with Christoph Cluse: Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Eastern Mediterranean, 11th to 15th Centuries, forthcoming at Brepols.