Maya Shatzmiller

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). Brill. ISBN 90-04-06759-0. OCLC 9340971.[5]
• Shatzmiller, Maya (1994). Labour in the Medieval Islamic World. Brill. ISBN 90-04-09896-8. OCLC 28256504.[6]
• Shatzmiller, Maya (1999). The Berbers and the Islamic State: The Marīnid Experience in Pre-Protectorate Morocco. Markus Wiener Publishers. ISBN 1-55876-209-4. OCLC 42476115.[7]
• Shatzmiller, Maya (2007). Her Day in Court: Women's Property Rights in Fifteenth-Century Granada. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-02501-1. OCLC 156229693.[8]

References

1. "Professor influences public policy on global issues such as women's status in the Middle East". Council of Ontario Universities. 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:
   • Kurio, Hans (August 1986). International Journal of Middle East Studies. 18 (3): 403–404. doi:10.1017/S0020743800030609. ISSN 0020-7438.CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Whitcomb, Thomas E. (1984). International Journal of African Historical Studies. 17 (3): 533. doi:10.2307/218340. JSTOR 218340.CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Brett, Michael (June 1985). Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies. 48 (2): 355–356. doi:10.1017/S0041977X0003353X. ISSN 0041-977X.CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
6. Reviews of Labour in the Medieval Islamic World:
   • Conrad, Lawrence I. (February 1999). International Journal of Middle East Studies. 31 (1): 120–124. doi:10.1017/S0020743800053083. ISSN 0020-7438.CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Watson, Andrew M. (September 1996). The Journal of Economic History. 56 (3): 729–731. doi:10.1017/S0022050700017204. ISSN 0022-0507.CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Irwin, Robert (February 1997). Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies. 60 (1): 133–134. doi:10.1017/S0041977X00029724. ISSN 0041-977X.CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
7. Reviews of The Berbers and the Islamic State:
   • Fancy, Hussein (2001). The Arab Studies Journal. 9/10 (2/1): 123–126. ISSN 1083-4753. JSTOR 27933812.CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Schroeter, Daniel J. (2002). Middle East Studies Association Bulletin. 36 (1): 86–87. doi:10.1017/S0026318400044448. ISSN 0026-3184.CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
8. Reviews of Her Day in Court:
   • Behrend-Martínez, Edward (June 2009). The American Historical Review. 114 (3): 817–818. doi:10.1086/ahr.114.3.817. ISSN 0002-8762.CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Silleras-Fernández, Núria (2009). Journal of Middle East Women's Studies. 5 (1): 116–119. doi:10.2979/MEW.2009.5.1.116. ISSN 1552-5864. S2CID 141768196.CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)

External links

• Profile at the University of Western Ontario
• Maya Shatzmiller publications indexed by Google Scholar