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Lecture

Zvi Ben-Dor Benite
Jews and Judaism under Early Islamic Empires: The Geonites under the Abbasids and the Golden Age in Spain

Thursday 9.10.2025

How to watch

This lecture starts on 9 October at 7:00pm (UK).

Summary

In the last of our four-part lecture on the historical relationship between Islam and Judaism, we take a close look at the development of prophetic culture in Arabia and the rise of Muhammad.

Zvi Ben-Dor Benite

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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).