General Information Last Name Amitai First Name Reuven Middle Name Ovog Title Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department Chair Work place/address Dept. of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem, 91905 Israel Phone 97225883743 Email [email protected]Webpage Research interests Conversion of Mongols in Iran, Mongol Warfare, relations between Mongols and Mamluks Language skill Native: English. Near Native Fluency: Hebrew. Reading and Speaking: Arabic. Reading: German, French, Persian. Basic Knowledge of Turkish and Mongolian Country Israel
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General Information Last Name Amitai
First Name Reuven
Middle Name
Ovog
Title Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department Chair
Work place/address Dept. of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, Hebrew University of
Research interests Conversion of Mongols in Iran, Mongol Warfare, relations between Mongols
and Mamluks
Language skill Native: English. Near Native Fluency: Hebrew. Reading and Speaking: Arabic. Reading: German, French,
Persian. Basic Knowledge of Turkish and Mongolian
Country Israel
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Article “Arabic Sources for the History of the Mongol Empire.” In the Proceedings of the Sixth
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Article “Mongol Imperial Ideology and the Ilkhanid War against the Mamluks.” In R. Amitai-‐Preiss and D. Morgan, eds. The Mongol
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Article “Turco-‐Mongolian Nomads and the iqṭā` System in the Islamic Middle East (1000-‐1400
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Article “Edward of England and Abagha Ilkhan: A Reexamination of a Failed Attempt at Mongol-‐
Frankish Cooperation.” In Michael Gervers and James M. Powell, editors. Tolerance and Intolerance: Social Conflict in the Age of the Crusades. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2001. Pp. 75-‐82 (notes: pp. 160-‐163).
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Article “The Mongol Occupation of Damascus in 1300: A Study of Mamluk Loyalties.” In
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Article “The Resolution of the Mongol-‐Mamluk War.” In Reuven Amitai and Michal Biran, editors. Mongols, Turks and Others: Eurasian Nomads and the Sedentary World. Leiden: E.J. Brill,
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Article With B.Z. Kedar. “Franks in the Eastern Mediterranean, 1047.” In Franco Cardini and Maria Luisa Ceccarelli Lemut, editors. Quel mar che la terra inghirlanda: In Ricordo di Marco Tangheroni. Pisa: Consiglio Nationale delle Ricerche and PACINIeditore, 2007. Vol.
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Article “A Mongol Governor of al-‐Karak in Jordan?: A Re-‐examination of an Old Document in Mongolian and Arabic.” Zentralasiatische
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Article “Im Westen nichts Neues? Re-‐examining Hülegü’s Offensive into the Jazīra and
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Article “Jews at the Mongol Court in Iran: Cultural Brokers or Minor Actors in a Cultural Boom?” In Marc von der Höh, Nikolas Jaspert and Jenny Rahel Oesterle, eds. Cultural Brokers between Religions: Border Crossers and
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Article “Rashīd al-‐Dīn as an Historian of the Mamluks.” In Rashid al-‐Din, Agent and
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Article “David Ayalon, 1914-‐1998.” Mamluk Studies Review. 3 (1999), 1-‐4. A Hebrew version
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Article Chronicles of the Crusades, ed. Elizabeth Hallam (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1989): short essay on “Rise of the Mamluks in
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and Anatoly Khazanov. 19 pp. of ms. Forthcoming Article “The Impact of the Mongols on the History of
Syria: Politics, Society and Culture.” In Eurasian Nomads as Agents of Cultural
Change, edited by Reuven Amitai and Michal Biran. Forthcoming at the University of
Hawaii Press.
Forthcoming Article “Between the Slave Trade and Diplomacy: Some Aspects of Early Mamluk Policy
in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea.” In Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Eastern Mediterranean, 11th to 15th
Centuries, edited by Christoph Cluse and Reuven Amitai. Forthcoming at Brepols.
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but Impossible Triangle.” In Ferdowsi, the Mongols & the History of Iran: Persian
Literature, Art and Culture from Early Islam to the Qajars. (Charles Melville Festschrift), edited by. Robert Hillenbrand, Firuza
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Mediterranean of the Armenians (XIIth-‐XVth Centuries), edited by Gérard Dédéyan and
Claude Mutafian. Forthcoming. Forthcoming Article “The Mongols as Seen by the Arabic Sources:
The View from across Asia.” To be published in the conference proceedings of “Chinggis Khan and Globalization,” 14-‐15 November
2012, Ulaan Baatar, Mongolia. Forthcoming Article “Continuity and Change in the Mongol Army
of the Ilkhanate.” In The Mongols and the Transformation of the Middle East, edited by. Charles Melville and Bruno De Nicola. To be
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(1993), 306-‐7. Book Review Paul Ratchnevsky, Genghis Khan: His Life and
Legacy, trans. and ed. Thomas Nivison Haining. Oxford and Cambridge, Mass.: Basil Blackwell, 1991. The International History
Review, 15 (1993), 558-‐59. Book Review Eva Rodhe Lundquist (ed. with translation
and commentary), Saladin and the Crusaders: Selected annals from Mas ālik al-‐abÒār fī mamālik al-‐amÒār by al-‐`Umarī , “Studia Orientalia Lundensia” no. 5 (Lund: Lund University Press, 1992). Journal of the
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(1994), 113-‐14. Book Review Boaz Shoshan, Popular Culture in Medieval
Cairo (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993). Journal of the Royal Asiatic
Society, 3rd ser., 4 (1994), 270-‐72. Book Review Maya Shatzmiller (ed.), Crusaders and
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334-‐35. Book Review Martina Mü ller-‐Wiener, Eine Stadtgeschichte
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Religion in the Golden Horde: Baba Tü kles and Conversion to Islam in Historical and Epic Tradition (University Park, PA: The
Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994). International Journal of Middle Eastern
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Ottoman Egypt: The Rise of the Qazdağ l is (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996). Times Literary Supplement, May 30,
1997, p. 9. Book Review Leo de Hartog, Russia and the Mongol Yoke:
The History of the Russian Principalities and the Golden Horde, 1221-‐1502 (London: I.B.
Tauris). The International History Review, 19 (1997), 654-‐57.
Book Review Al-‐Makī n ibn al-‐`Am īd, Chronique des Ayyoubides (602-‐658/1205-‐6-‐1259-‐60), translated and annotated by Anne-‐Marie Eddé and Fran oise Micheau (“Documents relatifs à l'histoire des Croisades,” vol. XVI) (Paris: L’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-‐Lettres, 1994). Mediterranean Historical
Review, 12 (1997), 120-‐22. Book Review Thomas T. Allsen, Commodity and Exchange in
the Mongol Empire: A Cultural History of Islamic Textiles (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1997). Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 61/2 (1998),
390-‐91. Book Review Salāh al-‐Dī n Muhammad Naww ār, al-‐Tawā’if
al-‐Mughū liyya f ī Misr wa-‐Tha’thī rā tuh ā al-‐`Askariyya wa’l-‐Siy āsiyya wa’l-‐Ijtim ā`iyya wa’l-‐Lughawiyya wa’l-‐`Imrā niyya fī `Asr Dawlat al-‐Mam l ūk al-‐Bahriyya (658-‐783 H/1260-‐1382 M) (Alexandira: Munsha'at al-‐Ma`ā rif bi’l-‐Iskandariyya, n.d. [1996?]). Mamluk Studies
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translated, edited, and with an introduction by Gary Leiser (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1993). Ha-‐MizraÎ He-‐Íadash, 41
(2000), 212-‐14 [in Hebrew]. Book Review Kate Fleet, European and Islamic Trade in the
Early Ottoman State: The Merchants of Genoa and Turkey (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1999). Times Literary Supplement, 22 September 2000, p. 30.
Book Review Christopher S. Taylor, In the Vicinity of the Righteous: Ziyā ra and the Veneration of
Muslim Saints in Late Medieval Egypt (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1999). Journal of the American Oriental Society, 120 (2000), 688-‐89.
Book Review Denise Aigle (ed.), L’Iran face à la domination mongole (“Biblioth que Iranienne,” vol. 45) (Teheran: Institut Fran çais de Recherche en Iran, 1997). Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 64 (2001), 114-‐17.
Book Review Charles Melville, The Fall of Amir Chupan and the Decline of the Ilkhanate, 1327-‐37: A Decade of Discord in Mongol Iran (“Papers on Inner
Asia,” No. 30) (Bloomington: Indiana University, Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies, 1999). Journal of the Royal Asiatic
Society, 3rd Ser., 11 (2001), 85-‐87. Book Review Carl F. Petry (ed.), The Cambridge History of
Egypt, volume I: Islamic Egypt, 640-‐1517 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998). Journal of the American Oriental
Society. 121 (2001), 707-‐9. Book Review Donald Ostrowski, Muscovy and the Mongols:
Cross-‐cultural Influences on the Steppe Frontier, 1304-‐1589 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998). Speculum, 77/2
(2002), 615-‐18. Book Review Matthew S. Gordon, The Breaking of a
Thousand Swords: A History of the Turkish Military of Samarra (A.H. 200-‐275/815-‐889 C.E.) (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001). Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and
Islam, 28 (2003), 413-‐19.
Book Review Peter B. Golden, Nomads and their Neighbors in the Russian Steppe: Turks, Khazars and Qipchaqs (Aldershot: Ashgate/Variorum, 2003). Mongolian Studies, 24 (2003-‐2004),
112-‐15. Book Review George Lane, Genghis Khan and Mongol Rule
(“Greenwood Guides to Historic Events of the Medieval World”) (Westport, Connecticut and London: Greenwood Press, 2004). Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies,
68/2 (June 2005), 322-‐324. Book Review George Lane, Daily Life in the Mongol Empire
(“Daily Life Through History Series”). Westport, Connecticut and London:
Greenwood Press, 2006. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 17/4 (2007), 469-‐471.
Book Review Hugh Kennedy (ed.), Muslim Military Architecture in Greater Syria: From the Coming of Islam to the Ottoman Period
(“History of Warfare,” vol. 35). Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2006. Mamluk Studies Review,
12/1 (2008), 220-‐227.
Book Review David Morgan, The Mongols, Second Edition (“The Peoples of Europe”). Oxford, Malden,
MA and Carlton, Victoria: Blackwell Publishing, 2007. Bulletin of the School of
Oriental and African Studies. 71 (2008), 379-‐380.
Book Review Sami G. Massoud, The Chronicles and Annalistic Sources of the Early Mamluk Circassian Period. “Islamic History and
Civilization Studies and Texts,” vol. 67. Leiden and Boston: E.J. Brill, 2007. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. 3rd Ser., 20/1 (2010),
91-‐93. Book Review Konrad Hirschler. Medieval Arabic
Historiography: Authors as Actor. “SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East.” London and New York: Routledge, 2006. Journal of the American Oriental Society,
130/4 (2010), 637-‐640. Book Review Beatrice Forbes Manz. Power, Politics and
Religion in Timurid Iran. “Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilisation.” Cambridge University
Press, 2007. To be published in the Indian Economic and Social History Review (Delhi).
Book Review Ali Annoshahr. The Ghazi Sultans and the Frontiers of Islam: A Comparative Study of the
Late Medieval and Early Modern Period. “Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern
History.” London and New York: Routledge, 2009. Speculum, 86 (2011), 720-‐721.
