Department of Middle Eastern and African History

Research output

Research output per year 1972 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2023 2024

• 3913 Citations
• 29 h-index
• 600 Article
• 397 Chapter
• 302 Book
• 73 Review article
• 184 More
  • 66 Book/Arts/Article review
  • 46 Working paper
  • 37 Foreword/postscript
  • 14 Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary
  • 6 Comment/debate
  • 4 Editorial
  • 4 Digital or Visual Products
  • 3 Special Issue
  • 2 Letter
  • 1 Short survey
  • 1 Other contribution

Research output per year

Research output per year

Search results

• 2022

  Nationalism and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

  Friedman, B., 1 Dec 2022, In: Bustan: the Middle East Book Review. 13, 2, p. 156-175 20 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Arts/Article review

  • Nationalism 100%
  • Kingdom of Saudi Arabia 100%
  • Kingdom 100%
  • Saudi Arabia 100%
  • Tooth Crown 100%
• 2019

  Italian architects and builders in the Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey: design across borders: edited by Paolo Girardelli and Ezio Godoli, Newcastle upon Tyne, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017, 301 pp., £61.99 (hardback), ISBN 9781443851947.

  Shefer-Mossensohn, M., 1 Dec 2019, In: Mediterranean Historical Review. 34, 2, p. 250-252 3 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Arts/Article review

• Rentier Islamism: The Influence of the Muslim Brotherhood in Gulf Monarchies ; By Courtney Freer, New York: Oxford University Press, 2018, 281pp.,(hardback), ISBN 978-0-19-086199-5

  Friedman, B., 2019, In: Middle Eastern Studies. 55, 5, p. 858-860 3 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Arts/Article review › peer-review

• Saddam Husayn and Islam, 1968–2003: Baʿthi Iraq from Secularism to Faith

  Alon, Y., 1 Jul 2019, In: Bustan: the Middle East Book Review. 10, 1, p. 78-82 5 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Arts/Article review

  • Iraq 100%
  • Secularism 100%
  • Islam 100%
  • United States 16%
  • Gulf War 16%

• גבירים ויהודים אחרים במזרח התיכון העות'מאני 1830-1750: [מאמר ביקורת]

  ⁨וישניצר, א.⁩, 2019, In: המזרח החדש. נח, p. 159-165 7 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Arts/Article review

  Open Access
• 2018

  [Book Review] Will Hanley, Identifying with Nationality: Europeans, Ottomans, and Egyptians in Alexandria, Columbia Studies in International Global History (New York: Columbia University Press, 2017). Pp. 416. ISBN: 9780231177627

  Gershoni, I., 2018, In: International Journal of Middle East Studies. 50, 4, p. 795–798 4 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Arts/Article review › peer-review

• Algeria revisited: history, culture and identity, edited by Rabah Aissaoui and Claire Eldridge.

  Maddy-Weitzman, B., 1 Jun 2018, In: Mediterranean Historical Review. 33, 1, p. 125-128 4 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Arts/Article review › peer-review

• Review: For Love of the Prophet: An Ethnography of Sudan's Islamic State, by Noah Salomon

  Back, I., 2018, In: Bustan: the Middle East Book Review. 9, 1, p. 69-72 4 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Arts/Article review

• The Medieval Islamic Hospital: Medicine, Religion, and Charity

  Shefer-Mossensohn, M., 1 Jan 2018, In: Journal of the American Oriental Society. 138, 4, p. 877-879 3 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Arts/Article review › peer-review

• האימפריה העות'מאנית חוזרת לארץ: [מאמר ביקורת]

  ⁨וישניצר, א.⁩, 2018, In: זמנים: רבעון להיסטוריה. 139, p. 106-108 3 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Arts/Article review
• 2017

  Learning in Morocco: Language Politics and the Abandoned Educational Dream, by Charis Boutieri.

  Maddy-Weitzman, B., 1 May 2017, In: Middle Eastern Studies. 53, 3, p. 502-504 3 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Arts/Article review › peer-review

• Men of Capital: Scarcity and Economy in Mandate Palestine: by Sherene Seikaly. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2016. 258 pages

  Nadan, A., 2017, In: The Middle East Journal. 71, 1, p. 162-163 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Arts/Article review › peer-review

  • Mandatory Palestine 100%
  • Stanford University 100%
  • Capital Scarcity 100%
  • Electronic Books 50%
  • Cloth 50%

• Review: West African ʿulamāʾ and Salafism in Mecca and Medina: Jawāb al-Ifrīqī — The Response of the African, by Chanfi Ahmed

  Back, I., 2017, In: Bustan: the Middle East Book Review. 8, 1, p. 88-90 3 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Arts/Article review

• בחזרה לעבר - היסטוריה מצולמת בקולנוע הערבי: [מאמר ביקורת]

  צורף, מ., 2017, In: המזרח החדש. 56, p. 221-223 3 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Arts/Article review

  Open Access
• 2016

  British Imperialism and the ‘Tribal Question’: Desert Administration and Nomadic Societies in the Middle East, 1919–1936, by Robert S.G. Fletcher

  Alon, Y., 1 Dec 2016, In: English Historical Review. 131, 553, p. 1571-1573 3 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Arts/Article review › peer-review

  • Middle East 100%
  • Desert 100%
  • British Imperialism 100%
  • Nomadic Society 100%
  • Fletcher 100%

• Disability in the Ottoman Arab World, 1500-1800

  Shefer-Mossensohn, M., 1 Jan 2016, In: Journal of Islamic Studies. 27, 3, p. 401-404 4 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Arts/Article review › peer-review

• Muslim Midwives: The Craft of Birthing in the Premodern Middle East.

  Shefer-Mossensohn, M., 1 Jan 2016, In: Early Science and Medicine. 21, 1, p. 75-77 3 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Arts/Article review

• Natural Disasters in the Ottoman Empire: Plague, Famine, and Other Misfortunes.

  Shefer-Mossensohn, M., 1 Jun 2016, In: American Historical Review. 121, 3, p. 1046-1047 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Arts/Article review › peer-review

• Review: The Jews of Iran: The History, Religion, and Culture of a Community in the Islamic World Edited by Houman Sarshar: (London: I.B. Tauris, 2014)

  Nissimov, M., 2016, In: Bustan: the Middle East Book Review. 7, 1, p. 74-80 7 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Arts/Article review
• 2015

  Held in Trust: Waqf in the Islamic World.

  Shefer-Mossensohn, M., 1 Jan 2015, In: Turkish Historical Review. 6, 1, p. 109-111 3 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Arts/Article review › peer-review

• Hospitals in Iran and India, 1500–1950s.

  Shefer-Mossensohn, M., 1 Jul 2015, In: Iranian Studies. 48, 4, p. 641-643 3 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Arts/Article review

• Picturing Algeria

  Maddy-Weitzman, B., 1 Mar 2015, In: European Legacy. 20, 2, p. 194-195 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Arts/Article review › peer-review

• The Rise and Fall of Al-Qaeda

  Maddy-Weitzman, B., 1 Jun 2015, In: European Legacy. 20, 4, p. 418-419 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Arts/Article review › peer-review
• 2014

  Birsen Bulmuş. Plague, Quarantines and Geopolitics in the Ottoman Empire.

  Shefer-Mossensohn, M., 1 Feb 2014, In: American Historical Review. 119, 1, p. 282-283 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Arts/Article review › peer-review

• Civil Society in Syria and Iran: Activism in Authoritarian Contexts

  Zisser, E., 2 Jan 2014, In: Middle Eastern Studies. 50, 1, p. 163-169 7 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Arts/Article review › peer-review

• Encountering Morocco: Fieldwork and Cultural Understanding, by David Crawford and Rachel Newcomb (eds.).

  Maddy-Weitzman, B., 1 Nov 2014, In: Middle Eastern Studies. 50, 6, p. 1032-1038 7 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Arts/Article review › peer-review

• Kristina L. Richardson. Difference and Disability in the Medieval Islamic World: Blighted Bodies. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012. 158 pages, illustrations, notes, bibliography. Cloth US$96.00 ISBN 978-0-7486-4507-7; Paper US$40.00 ISBN 978-0-7486-9588-1.

  Shefer-Mossensohn, M., 2014, In: Review of Middle East Studies. 48, 1-2, p. 104-106 3 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Arts/Article review › peer-review

• Spoils of Truce: Corruption and State-Building in Postwar Lebanon

  Zisser, E., 2 Jan 2014, In: Middle Eastern Studies. 50, 1, p. 163-169 7 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Arts/Article review › peer-review
• 2013

  A Review of “Arabian War Games: Cataclysmic Wars Redraw the Map of the Middle East”: Ali al Shihabi, (Bloomington, IN: iUniverse, 2012), 200 pp.

  Friedman, B., 2013, In: Comparative Strategy. 32, 2, p. 160-164 5 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Arts/Article review › peer-review

• Cem Emrence, Remapping the Ottoman Middle East: Modernity, Imperial, Bureaucracy and the Islamic State (London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2012), 192 pp. ISBN 978-1-84885-958-6

  Shefer-Mossensohn, M., 2013, In: Bustan: the Middle East Book Review. 4, 2, p. 158-161 4 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Arts/Article review

• Damascus Diary: An Inside Account of Hafez al-Asad's Peace Diplomacy, 1990-2000

  Zisser, E., Jan 2013, In: MIDDLE EAST JOURNAL. 67, 3, p. 486-487 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Arts/Article review › peer-review

• Forgotten saints: history, power, and politics in the making of modern Morocco.

  Maddy-Weitzman, B., 1 Jun 2013, In: Mediterranean Historical Review. 28, 1, p. 86-89 4 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Arts/Article review › peer-review

  • Politics 100%
  • Morocco 100%
  • Saints 100%
  • Modern Morocco 100%
  • Middle Eastern 50%

• The Emergence of Minorities in the Middle East: The Politics of Community in French Mandate Syria

  Zisser, E., 1 Jul 2013, In: Middle Eastern Studies. 49, 4, p. 668-671 4 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Arts/Article review › peer-review

• Western Sahara: War, Nationalism, and Conflict Irresolution.

  Maddy-Weitzman, B., 1 Mar 2013, In: Middle East Quarterly. 20, 2, p. 96 1 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Arts/Article review › peer-review

  • Nationalism 100%
  • Western Sahara 100%
  • Stephen 50%

• היסטוריה ואידיאולוגיה בראשית האסלאם: [מאמר ביקורת]

  ⁨שפר-מוסנזון, מ.⁩, 2013, In: המזרח החדש. 52, p. 358-361 4 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Arts/Article review

  Open Access
• 2012

  Judeo-Persian Communities of Iran

  Nissimov, M., 2012, In: Jewish Political Studies Review. 24, 3/4, p. 150-152 3 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Arts/Article review

  • Iran 100%
  • Judeo-Persian 100%
  • Persian 100%
  • Jewish Community 50%
  • Encyclopedia 50%

• Language, Memory, and Identity in the Middle East: The Case for Lebanon

  Zisser, E., 2012, In: Middle Eastern Studies. 48, 3, p. 472-477 6 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Arts/Article review › peer-review

• Religion, National Identity, and Confessional Politics in Lebanon: The Challenge of Islamism

  Zisser, E., 2012, In: Middle Eastern Studies. 48, 3, p. 472-477 6 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Arts/Article review › peer-review
• 2011

  Anne Marie Moulin, Le médecin du prince: voyages à travers les cultures (Paris: Odile Jacob, 2010), pp. 362, €25.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-2-7381-2446-3.

  Shefer-Mossensohn, M., 2011, In: Medical History. 55, 4, p. 549-550 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Arts/Article review

• Egypt after Mubarak: Liberalism, Islam, and Democracy in the Arab World

  Tzoreff, M., 2011, In: Bustan: the Middle East Book Review. 2, 2, p. 118-122 5 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Arts/Article review

• Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present.

  Shefer, M., 1 Aug 2011, In: Canadian Journal of History. 46, 2, p. 434-435 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Arts/Article review › peer-review

  • Empire 100%
  • Bronze Age 100%
  • Eurasia 100%
  • Silk Road 100%
  • Central Eurasia 100%
• 2010

  Ransom Slavery along the Ottoman Borders: Early Fifteenth–Early Eighteenth Centuries: [Ottoman Empire and its heritage, 37] : GÉZA DÁVID and PÁL FODOR (Eds), 2007 Leiden: Brill xx + 253 pp., ill., maps, ISBN 9789004157040

  Shefer-Mossensohn, M., 2010, In: Al-Masaq: Islam and the Medieval Mediterranean. 22, 3, p. 329-331 3 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Arts/Article review › peer-review

• The Foreign Policies of Arab States: The Challenge of Globalization; and Restoring the Balance: A Middle East Strategy for the Next President.

  Maddy-Weitzman, B., 1 May 2010, In: Middle Eastern Studies. 46, 3, p. 461-469 9 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Arts/Article review › peer-review

  • Middle East 100%
  • Foreign Policy 100%
  • Arab States 100%
  • Challenges of Globalization 100%
  • Council on Foreign Relations 50%
• 2009

  Healing the Land and the Nation: Malaria and the Zionist Project in Palestine, 1920-1947.

  Shefer-Mossensohn, M., 1 Oct 2009, In: American Historical Review. 114, 4, p. 1196 1 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Arts/Article review › peer-review

• Major C. G. Campbell, trans. Tales from the Arab Tribes: The Oral Traditions among the Great Arab Tribes of Southern Iraq: London: Kegan Paul, 2007. 252 pages, illustrations, appendix. ISBN 10:0-7103-1131-3.

  Alon, Y., 2009, In: Review of Middle East Studies. 43, 1, p. 73–75 3 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Arts/Article review › peer-review

• Shi'ite Lebanon: Transnational Religion and the Making of National Identities

  Zisser, E., 2009, In: Middle Eastern Studies. 45, 3, p. 517-523 7 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Arts/Article review › peer-review

• The Metaphysics of The Healing, by Avicenna: A Parallel English-Arabic Text.

  Shefer-Mossensohn, M., 1 Jan 2009, In: Journal of the American Oriental Society. 129, 1, p. 165-166 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Arts/Article review

  • English-Arabic 100%
  • Healing 100%
  • Metaphysics 100%
  • Arabic Text 100%
  • Avicenna 100%
• 2008

  Among the Righteous: Lost Stories from the Holocaust's Long Reach into Arab Lands.

  Litvak, M., 1 Oct 2008, In: Shofar. 27, 1, p. 141-144 4 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Arts/Article review › peer-review

  • Arab 100%
  • Holocaust 100%
  • Long-reach 100%
  • Review Article 100%

• Before homosexuality in the Arab-Islamic world, 1500-1800

  Shefer-Mossensohn, M., 1 Jan 2008, In: Journal of the American Oriental Society. 128, 2, p. 386-387 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Arts/Article review › peer-review

• Book Review: Le Gall, Dina. A Culture of Sufism: Naqshbandīs in the Ottoman World, 1450-1700. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 2005

  Shefer Mossensohn, M., 2008, In: Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam. 35, p. 453-456 4 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Arts/Article review › peer-review