Maya Shatzmiller

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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]

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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]

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  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.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  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:
  6. ↑ Reviews of Labour in the Medieval Islamic World:
  7. ↑ Reviews of The Berbers and the Islamic State:
  8. ↑ Reviews of Her Day in Court:


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