Reuven Amitai
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Israeli-American historian and writer
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Reuven Amitai , also Reuven Amitai-Preiss, is an Israeli-American historian and writer, specializing in pre-modern Islamic civilization, especially Syria and Palestine during the time of the Mamluk Empire. In his 20s he moved to Israel, and became history professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. As of 2012 he is the Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at the Hebrew University.
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- Sufis and Shamans: Some Remarks on the Islamization of the Mongols in the Ilkhanate (1999) (70)
- Ghazan, Islam and Mongol tradition: a view from the Mamlūk sultanate (1996) (57)
- Mongols and Mamluks: The Mamluk-Ilkhanid War, 1260–1281 (1995) (41)
- Mongols, Turks and Others: Eurasian Nomads and the Sedentary World (2005) (40)
- The Mongol Empire and its legacy (1999) (40)
- In the Vicinity of the Righteous: Ziyāra and the Veneration of Muslim Saints in Late Medieval EgyptIn the Vicinity of the Righteous: Ziyara and the Veneration of Muslim Saints in Late Medieval Egypt (1998) (36)
- Mamluk perceptions of the Mongol‐Frankish rapprochement 1 (1992) (27)
- Nomads on Ponies vs. Slaves on Horses@@@Mongols and Mamluks: The Mamluk-Īlkhānid War, 1260-1281@@@Mongols and Mamluks: The Mamluk-Ilkhanid War, 1260-1281 (1998) (22)
- Crusaders and Muslims in Twelfth-Century Syria (1995) (18)
- The conversion of Tegüder Ilkhan to Islam (2001) (17)
- The Mamlūk Institution, or One Thousand Years of Military Slavery in the Islamic World (2006) (17)
- Diplomacy and the slave trade in the eastern Mediterranean (2008) (15)
- Mongol raids into Palestine (A.D. 1260 and 1300) (1987) (15)
- Mongols and Mamluks: List of abbreviations (1995) (14)
- An Arabic biographical notice of Kitbugha, the Mongol general defeated at 'Ayn Jalut (2007) (13)
- The Mongols in the Islamic Lands: Studies in the History of the Ilkhanate (2007) (10)
- Whither the Ilkhanid Army? Ghazan’s First Campaign into Syria (1299 - 1300) (2002) (10)
- Mongols and Mamluks: The Mamluk-Ilkhanid War, 1260-1281 (1995) (10)
- Mongols and Mamluks: The Mamluk-Ilkhanid War, 1260-1281. (1997) (9)
- Holy War and Rapprochement: Studies in the Relations between the Mamluk Sultanate and the Mongol Ilkhanate (1260-1335) (2013) (9)
- Ghazan, Islam and Mongol Tradition: A View from the Mamluk Sultanate (1996) (8)
- The Al-Subayba (Nimrod) Fortress: Towers 11 and 9 (2001) (6)
- True to Their Ways: Why the Qara Khitai Did Not Convert to Islam (2005) (6)
- New Material from the Mamluk Sources for the Biography of Rashid al -Din (1996) (6)
- Evidence for the Early Use of the Title īlkhān among the Mongols (1991) (6)
- In the Aftermath of `Ayn Jalut: The Beginnings of the Mamluk-Ilkhanid Cold War (1990) (5)
- The Mamluk Sultanate from the Perspective of Regional and World History (2019) (5)
- Al-Nuwayrī as a Historian of the Mongols (2001) (5)
- Did Chinggis Khan Have a Jewish Teacher? an Examination of an Early Fourteenth-Century Arabic Text (2004) (5)
- In the aftermath of CAyn Jālūt: The beginnings of the Mamlūk‐Ilkhānid cold war (1990) (5)
- Mamluks of Mongol Origin and their Role in Early Mamluk Political Life (2008) (4)
- Northern Syria between the Mongols and Mamluks: Political Boundary, Military Frontier, and Ethnic Affinities (1999) (4)
- The Conquest of Arsuf by Baybars: Political and Military Aspects (MSR IX.1, 2005) (2005) (4)
- Hülegü and His Wise Men: Topos or Reality? (2014) (4)
- The Mongol Empire & its legacy (2000) (4)
- The Mongol Occupation of Damascus in 1300: A Study of Mamluk Loyalties (2004) (3)
- Armies and their Economic Basis in Iran and the Surrounding Lands, ca. 1000 -1500 C.E. (2010) (3)
- Notes on the Ayyubid Inscriptions at al-Subayba (Qalat Nimrud) (1989) (3)
- Al -Maqrizi as a Historian of the Early Mamluk Sultanate (or: Is al-Maqrizi an Unrecognized Historigraphical Villian?) (2003) (2)
- 9. Islamisation in the Southern Levant after the End of Frankish Rule: Some General Considerations and a Short Case Study (2017) (2)
- Dangerous Liaisons: Armenian-Mongol-Mamluk Relations (1260- 1292) (2014) (2)
- The Jihād and Its Times: Dedicated to Andrew Stefan Ehrenkreutz@@@The Jihad and Its Times: Dedicated to Andrew Stefan Ehrenkreutz (1994) (2)
- Foot Soldiers, Militiamen and Volunteers in the Early Mamluk Army (2003) (2)
- Holy war and rapprochement : studies in the relations between the Mamluk Sultanate and the Mongol Ilkhanate (1260-1335) (2013) (2)
- Mongol Provincial Administration: Syria in 1260 as a Case- Study (2007) (2)
- Arabic Sources for the History of the Mongol Empire (1994) (2)
- Al-Maqrizi as a Historian of the Early Mamluk Sultanate (or: Is al-Maqrizi an Unrecognized Historiographical Villain?) (MSR VII.2, 2003) (2003) (2)
- The Resolution of the Mongol-Mamluk War (2005) (2)
- The Mamluk Institution: 1000 Years of Military Slavery in the Islamic World (2006) (2)
- David Ayalon, 1914-1998 (MSR III, 1999) (1999) (2)
- Ayn Jālūt Revisited (2017) (2)
- The Turks of the Eurasian Steppes in Medieval Arabic Writing (2005) (2)
- The Mongols as Seen by the Arabic Sources: The View from across Asia (2014) (1)
- Dealing with Reality: Early Mamluk Military Policy and the Allocation of Resources (2011) (1)
- The Impact of the Mongols on the History of Syria (2014) (1)
- Franks in the Eastern Mediterranean, 1047 (2007) (1)
- Im Westen nichts Neues ? Re-ex amining Hülegü’s Offensive into the Jazīra and Northern 10 Syria in Light of Recent Research (2011) (1)
- Mongols and Mamluks: The Mamluk–Īlkhānid frontier (1995) (1)
- Some More Thoughts on the Logistics of the Mongol -Mamluk War (with Special Reference to the Battle of Wadi al-Khaznadar) (2006) (1)
- Between the Slave Trade and Diplomacy: Some Aspects of Early Mamluk Policy in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea (2018) (1)
- 2 Continuity and Change in the Mongol Army of the Ilkhanate (2016) (1)
- Jews at the Mongol Court in Iran: Cultural Brokers or Minor Actors in a Cultural Boom? (2013) (1)
- Political and Civilian Elites in Mamluk Palestine (1260–1516). Some Preliminary Comments (2018) (1)
- Mongols and Mamluks: Baybars's intervention in Seljuq Rūm (1995) (1)
- Muscovy and the Mongols: Cross-Cultural Influences on the Steppe Frontier, 1304-1589. Donald Ostrowski (2002) (1)
- Epilogue: An Informative and Amusing Episode from Mamluk-Ilkhanid Diplomacy (2013) (1)
- Mongols and Mamluks: The battle of ʿAyn Jālūt (1995) (1)
- Remarking of the military lit of Mamluk Egypt by Al-Nasir Muhammad B. Qalawun (1990) (1)
- Islam in Europe: Case Studies, Comparisons & Overviews (2007) (1)
- Post-Crusader Acre in Light of a Mamluk Inscription and a Fatwā Document from Damascus (2017) (1)
- Rashīd al-Dīn as an Historian of the Mamluks (2013) (1)
- A Mongol Governor of al-Karak in Jordan?: A Re-examination of an Old Document in Mongolian and Arabic (2007) (1)
- Devin DeWeese, Islamization and Native Religion in the Golden Horde: Baba Tükles and Conversion to Islam in Historical and Epic Tradition , Hermeneutics: Studies in the History of Religions (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994). Pp. 655. (1997) (0)
- The Turks in the Middle East: From the Middle Ages to Contemporary Concerns (2007) (0)
- The Chronicles and Annalistic Sources of the Early Mamluk Circassian Period. By Sami G. Massoud. (Islamic History and Civilization Studies and Texts, Vol. 67). pp. xiv, 477. Leiden and Boston, E. J. Brill, 2007. (2009) (0)
- Power, Politics, and Tradition in the Mongol Empire and the Īlkhānate of Iran. By Michael Hope (2021) (0)
- Ibn Khaldun on Mongol Military Might (2015) (0)
- Echoes of the Eurasian Steppe in the Daily Culture of Mamluk Military Society (2016) (0)
- 3. The Conversion of the Mongols to Islam,the Ongoing Ideological Struggle and the Coming of Peace (2013) (0)
- The Battle of `Ayn Jalut (A.D. 1260) [in Hebrew] (2007) (0)
- Mamluks, Franks and Mongols: A Necessary but Impossible Triangle (2013) (0)
- Correction to: The Mamluk’s Best Friend: The Mounts of the Military Elite of Egypt and Syria in the Late Middle-Ages (2019) (0)
- The Conversion of Tegüder Ilkhan to Islam [in Hebrew] (2006) (0)
- george lane: genghis khan and mongol rule. (greenwood guides to historic events of the medieval world.) xlvi, 225 pp. westport, connecticut and london: greenwood press, 2004. (2005) (0)
- 2. Holy War: Mamluk Jihad versus the Mongol Mandate from Heaven (2013) (0)
- 4. Warriors and Society: Two Turco-Mongol Military Elites Relate to Muslim Societies (2013) (0)
- The Conquest of Arsūf by Baybars: Political and Military Aspects [in Hebrew] (2007) (0)
- Hannah Barker, That Most Precious Merchandise: The Mediterranean Trade in Black Sea Slaves, 1260–1500. (The Middle Ages.) Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. Pp. 314; 2 maps, 5 tables, and 16 graphs. $79.95. ISBN: 978-0-8122-5154-8. (2021) (0)
- Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Eastern Mediterranean (c. 1000-1500 ce): Introduction (2018) (0)
- Mongols in the Middle East (2011) (0)
- David Morgan: The Mongols . (Second Edition.) (The Peoples of Europe.) xxii, 246 pp. Oxford and Malden: Blackwell, 2007. £19.99. ISBN 978 1 4051 3539 9. (2008) (0)
- The Mamluk’s Best Friend: The Mounts of the Military Elite of Egypt and Syria in the Late Middle-Ages (2019) (0)
- The Mamluk State and Jerusalem [Hebrew] (2012) (0)
- Beatrice Forbes Manz, Power, Politics and Religion in Timurid Iran (USA: Cambridge University Press), 2007, pp. 313 (2010) (0)
- An Arabic Inscription at al-Subayba (Qal`at Namrud) from the Reign of Sultan Baybars (2001) (0)
- 1. The Dynamics of Conflict: Mongol Aggression, Mamluk Countermeasures (2013) (0)
- Book Reviews (MSR III, 1999) (1999) (0)
- The Development of a Muslim City in Palestine: Gaza under the Mamluks (2021) (0)
- Daily Life in the Mongol Empire . By George Lane. (Daily Life Through History Series). pp. xxiv, 312. Westport, Connecticut and London, Greenwood Press, 2006. (2007) (0)
- Reuven Amitai, Christoph Cluse (éd.), Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Eastern Mediterranean (c. 1000– (2022) (0)
- The Mongols and the Faith of the Conquered (2005) (0)
- Sliding Legalities: Venetian Slave Trade in Alexandria and the Aegean (2017) (0)
- Ali Anooshahr, The Ghazi Sultans and the Frontiers of Islam: A Comparative Study of the Late Medieval and Early Modern Periods . (Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern History, 9.) London and New York: Routledge, 2009. Pp. ix, 196. (2011) (0)
- Mamluk-Ilkhanid Diplomatic Contacts: Negotiations or Posturing? (2018) (0)
- Thomas T. Allsen: Commodity and exchange in the Mongol empire: a cultural history of Islamic textiles . (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization.) xvi, 137 pp. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press, 1997. £30, $49.95. (1998) (0)
- Mongols and Mamluks: Baybars's posthumous victory: the second battle of Homs (680/1281) (1995) (0)
- Popular culture in medieval Cairo . By Boaz Shoshan. (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization.) pp. xv, 148. Cambridge etc., Cambridge University Press, 1993. £27.95. (1994) (0)
- Islam and the Abode of War: Military Slaves and Islamic Adversaries, by David Ayalon. (Variorum Collected Studies Series) 298 pages, notes, index. Brookfield, VT: Ashgate Publishing Co., 1994. $87.50 (Cloth) ISBN 0-86078-430-4 (1995) (0)
- Mongols and Mamluks: The historical background (1995) (0)
- Mongols and Mamluks: Mamluks and Mongols: an overview (1995) (0)
- Mongols and Mamluks: Maps (1995) (0)
- Mongols and Mamluks: Bibliography (1995) (0)
- Mongols and Mamluks: Genealogical Tables (1995) (0)
- Mongols and Mamluks: The search for a second front (1995) (0)
- Mongols and Mamluks: Frontmatter (1995) (0)
- The formulation of anti-Īlkhānid policy (1995) (0)
- Mongols and Mamluks: The secret war (1995) (0)
- Mongols and Mamluks: Military and diplomatic skirmishing (1995) (0)
- Notes on dates and transliteration (2015) (0)
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