There are two categories to this page: my academic readings, and my academic writings. Most of the writings are History papers focusing on the Middle East, Jewish History, and most specifically the Mediterranean basin.

Writing

• Moroccan Jewry, European Connections and Identity Flux: 1492-1912
• The Origin of the Septuagint
• Were Philo and His Family Typical Alexandrians?
• POWER, POLITICS, AND PHILOSOPHY: Comparing the Religious Programs of Constantine I and Julian the Apostate
• Why Was Muhammad’s Early Preaching So Effective? Or Was It?
• The Importance of the Constitution of Medina
• Inter-Religious Interaction: an Intra-Religious Affair, A Survey of non-Muslim Reactions to the Arab Conquests of the Early 7th Century
• Islamic Origins: What Really Happened?
• How Important Was Ideology to the Crusades?
• Why Should We Look at the Jews in the Crusades?
• The Significance of Moses Maimonides in the History of the Jews of Egypt
• A Qualification of Jewish-Muslim Coexistence
• Dealing With Zionism From Morocco to Iraq in the 1930s
• Egyptian Nationality and the Jews in the 20th Century
• Intra-Jewish Racism in Israel
• Edward Said’s Orientalism and its Criticism
• Response to Arthur Koestler’s The Thirteenth Tribe, on the Jews of Eastern Europe’s Origins
• On Sidney Chriqui’s “As Time Goes By: A Life’s Journey from Casablanca”
• Pre-Colonial Jewish Comercial Networks in the Mediterranean
• An Anthology of all of the above ^

Reading

• The Septuagint and Homeric Scholarship in Alexandria: A Study in the Narrative of the ‘Letter of Aristeas’ by Sylvie Honigman
• The Legend of the Septuagint: From Classical Antiquity to Today by Abraham and David Wasserstein
• Law, Prophets, and Wisdom: On the Provenance of Translators and their Books in the Septuagint Version by Johann Cook and Arie van der Kooij
• de Josepho by Philo
• The Land of the Body: Studies in Philo’s Representation of Egypt by Sarah J. K. Pearce
• Jews in the Hellenistic World by Ronald Williamson
• Jews in the Hellenistic and Roman Cities ed. John R. Bartlett
• W. Montgomery Watt’s multitude of works on Islam and Muhammad
• The Life of Muhammad by Ibn Ishaq
• Compilation of works on the Constitution of Medina arr. Michael Lecker
• “The Constitution of Medina”, Some Notes by Uri Rubin
• The Constitution of Medina: A Sociolegal Interpretation of Muhammad’s Acts of Foundation of the “Umma” by Said Amir Arjomand
• Muhammad and the Rise of Islam: The Creation of Group Identity by Subhash C. Inamidar
• ”How Islam Saved the Jews” by David Wasserstein
• Christological Polemics of Maximus the Confessor and the Emergence of Islam onto the World Stage by Grigory Benevich
• John C. Lamoreaux’s body of work on Islamic Studies, Christian History, and Political Islam
• Initial Byzantine Reactions to the Arab Conquest by Walter Emil Kaegi Jr.
• Seeing Islam as Others Saw It: A Survey and Evalutation of Christian, Jewish, and Zoroastrian Writings on Early Islam by Robert G. Hoyland
• Hagarism: The Making of the Islamic World by Patricia Crone and Michael Cook
• The Race for Paradise: An Islamic History of the Crusades by Paul Cobb
• The Crusades: Islamic Perspectives by Carole Hillenbrand
• The History of the Jews in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem by Joshua Prawer
• In the Year 1096: The First Crusade and the Jews by Robert Chazan
• The Jews and the Crusaders: The Hebrew Chronicles of the First and Second Crusades by Shlomo Eidelberg
• Benjamin of Tudela’s Travels
• Maimonides: The Life and World of one of Civilization’s Greatest Minds by Joel Kramer
• Maimonides by David Yellin and Israel Abrahams
• Travels in North Africa by Nahum Slouschz
• The Dhimmi: Jews and Christians Under Islam by Bat Ye’or
• Jews of Arab Lands: A History and Source Book and The Jews of Arab Lands in Modern Times by Norman Stillman
• The Jews of the Ottoman Empire by Avigdor Levy
• A Mediterranean Society: The Jewish Communities of the Arab World as Portrayed in the Documents of the Cairo Geniza by S.D. Goitein
• The Jews of Egypt: A Mediterranean Society in Modern Times ed. Shimon Shamir
• The Dispersion of Egyptian Jewry: Culture, Politics, and the Formation of a Modern Diaspora by Joel Benin
• Intra-Jewish Conflict in Israel: White Jews, Black Jews by Sami Shalom Chetrit
• Immigration Without Integration: Third World Jews in Israel by Avraham Shama and Mark Iris
• Orientalism by Edward Said
• Studies of Israeli Society: Migration, Ethnicity, and Community by Ernest Krausz
• Shifting Ethnic Boundaries and Inequality in Israel: Or, How the German Peddler Became a German Intellectual by Aziza Khazzoom
• The Question of Orientalism (a criticism of Orientalism) by Bernard Lewis
• Debating Orientalism by Anna Bernard, David Attwell, ed Z. Elmarsafy