Maya Shatzmiller

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Maya Shatzmiller FRSC is a historian whose scholarship focusses on the economic history of the Muslim world. She became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2003.[1] She received her PhD from the University of Provence in 1973, and was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in 1992.[2] Shatzmiller is a professor of history at the University of Western Ontario.[3]

Shatzmiller has critiqued the views of Timur Kuran, arguing that his scholarship paints a negative picture of Islam but does not show why some Muslim countries experience economic difficulties.[4]

Publications

  • Shatzmiller, Maya. (1982). L'historiographie mérinide : Ibn Khaldūn et ses contemporains (in French).
    OCLC 9340971.[5]
  • Shatzmiller, Maya (1994). Labour in the Medieval Islamic World.
  • Shatzmiller, Maya (1999). The Berbers and the Islamic State: The Marīnid Experience in Pre-Protectorate Morocco. Markus Wiener Publishers.
  • Shatzmiller, Maya (2007). Her Day in Court: Women's Property Rights in Fifteenth-Century Granada.

References

  1. ^ "Professor influences public policy on global issues such as women's status in the Middle East". Council of Ontario Universities. May 4, 2018. Retrieved December 24, 2020.
  2. ^ "Maya Shatzmiller". Institute for Advanced Study. December 9, 2019. Retrieved December 24, 2020.
  3. ^ "Maya Shatzmiller". University of Western Ontario. Retrieved December 24, 2020.
  4. ^ Cambanis, Thanassis (July 1, 2012). "The economic toll of Islamic law". The Boston Globe. Retrieved December 24, 2020.
  5. ^ Reviews of L'historiographie mérinide:
  6. ^ Reviews of Labour in the Medieval Islamic World:
  7. ^ Reviews of The Berbers and the Islamic State:
  8. ^ Reviews of Her Day in Court:

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