Zvi Ben-Dor Benite
About Zvi Ben-Dor Benite
Zvi Ben-Dor Benite teaches Chinese History, Middle Eastern and Islamic history, and sometimes Jewish history, at New York University. He is author of The Dao of Muhammad: A Cultural History of Muslims in Late Imperial China (Harvard, 2005); The Ten Lost Tribes: A World History (Oxford, 2009); co-editor of Modern Middle Eastern Jewish Thought: Writings on Identity, Culture, and Politics (Brandeis, 2013); The Scaffolding of Sovereignty: Global and Aesthetic Perspectives on the History of a Concept (Columbia University Press, 2017); and Time and Language: New Sinology and Chinese History (Hawaii University Press, 2023).
Zvi Ben-Dor’s lectures (60)
Date
Title
6 January
Abbasid Caliphate
13 January
The Early Abbasid Caliphate
20 January
The Decline of the Abbasid Caliphate
27 January
The Mongol-Mamluk War and Its Aftermath
3 February
The African Caliphates: Mali and Timbuktu Rise to Primacy
10 February
The Islamization of Central Asia and the Rise of the Mughal Dynasty in India
17 February
Ottomans vs. Safavids
24 February
Political Islam and Islamic Politics in the Modern World: Secularism, the West, and the Road to 9/11