Maya Shatzmiller
{{short description|Economic historian}}
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Maya Shatzmiller {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|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.{{Cite web|title=Professor influences public policy on global issues such as women's status in the Middle East|date=May 4, 2018 |url=https://ontariosuniversities.ca/stories/women-status-middle-east|access-date=2020-12-24|publisher=Council of Ontario Universities|language=en}} She received her PhD from the University of Provence in 1973, and was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in 1992.{{Cite web|date=2019-12-09|title=Maya Shatzmiller|url=https://www.ias.edu/scholars/maya-shatzmiller|access-date=2020-12-24|publisher=Institute for Advanced Study|language=en}} Shatzmiller is a professor of history at the University of Western Ontario.{{Cite web|title=Maya Shatzmiller|url=http://www.history.uwo.ca/people/faculty/shatzmiller.html|access-date=2020-12-24|publisher=University of Western Ontario|language=en}}
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.{{cite news|last1=Cambanis|first1=Thanassis|title=The economic toll of Islamic law|work=The Boston Globe|date=July 1, 2012|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2012/06/30/the-economic-toll-islamic-law/AemXKKchFlKatsiwsaK5BJ/story.html|access-date=December 24, 2020}}
Publications
- {{Cite book|last1=Shatzmiller|first1=Maya.|title=L'historiographie mérinide : Ibn Khaldūn et ses contemporains|date=1982|publisher=Brill|isbn=90-04-06759-0|oclc=9340971|language=fr}}Reviews of L'historiographie mérinide:
- {{Cite journal|last=Kurio|first=Hans|date=August 1986|title=none|journal=International Journal of Middle East Studies|language=en|volume=18|issue=3|pages=403–404|doi=10.1017/S0020743800030609|s2cid=163260275 |issn=0020-7438}}
- {{Cite journal|last=Whitcomb|first=Thomas E.|date=1984|title=none|journal=International Journal of African Historical Studies|volume=17|issue=3|pages=533|doi=10.2307/218340|jstor=218340}}
- {{Cite journal|last=Brett|first=Michael|date=June 1985|title=none|journal=Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies|language=en|volume=48|issue=2|pages=355–356|doi=10.1017/S0041977X0003353X|s2cid=161411039 |issn=0041-977X}}
- {{Cite book|last1=Shatzmiller|first1=Maya|title=Labour in the Medieval Islamic World|year=1994|publisher=Brill|isbn=90-04-09896-8|oclc=28256504}}Reviews of Labour in the Medieval Islamic World:
- {{Cite journal|last=Conrad|first=Lawrence I.|date=February 1999|title=none|journal=International Journal of Middle East Studies|language=en|volume=31|issue=1|pages=120–124|doi=10.1017/S0020743800053083|s2cid=162498893 |issn=0020-7438}}
- {{Cite journal|last=Watson|first=Andrew M.|date=September 1996|title=none|journal=The Journal of Economic History|language=en|volume=56|issue=3|pages=729–731|doi=10.1017/S0022050700017204|s2cid=154177656 |issn=0022-0507}}
- {{Cite journal|last=Irwin|first=Robert|date=February 1997|title=none|journal=Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies|language=en|volume=60|issue=1|pages=133–134|doi=10.1017/S0041977X00029724|s2cid=163004523 |issn=0041-977X}}
- {{Cite book|last1=Shatzmiller|first1=Maya|title=The Berbers and the Islamic State: The Marīnid Experience in Pre-Protectorate Morocco|date=1999|publisher=Markus Wiener Publishers|isbn=1-55876-209-4|oclc=42476115}}Reviews of The Berbers and the Islamic State:
- {{Cite journal|last=Fancy|first=Hussein|date=2001|title=none|journal=The Arab Studies Journal|volume=9/10|issue=2/1|pages=123–126|issn=1083-4753|jstor=27933812}}
- {{Cite journal|last=Schroeter|first=Daniel J.|date=2002|title=none|journal=Middle East Studies Association Bulletin|language=en|volume=36|issue=1|pages=86–87|doi=10.1017/S0026318400044448|s2cid=165287311 |issn=0026-3184}}
- {{Cite book|last1=Shatzmiller|first1=Maya|title=Her Day in Court: Women's Property Rights in Fifteenth-Century Granada|year=2007|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=978-0-674-02501-1|oclc=156229693}}Reviews of Her Day in Court:
- {{Cite journal|last=Behrend-Martínez|first=Edward|date=June 2009|title=none|journal=The American Historical Review|language=en|volume=114|issue=3|pages=817–818|doi=10.1086/ahr.114.3.817|issn=0002-8762}}
- {{Cite journal|last=Silleras-Fernández|first=Núria|date=2009|title=none|journal=Journal of Middle East Women's Studies|language=en|volume=5|issue=1|pages=116–119|doi=10.2979/MEW.2009.5.1.116|s2cid=141768196|issn=1552-5864}}
References
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External links
- [https://history.uwo.ca/people/faculty/shatzmiller.html Profile] at the University of Western Ontario
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Category:21st-century Canadian historians
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Category:Canadian women historians
Category:Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada
Category:Institute for Advanced Study visiting scholars
Category:University of Provence alumni
Category:Academic staff of the University of Western Ontario
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Category:20th-century Canadian women writers
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