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Zvi Ben-Dor BeniteAssociate Professor
of
History
Email:
zvi@nyu.edu
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Areas of Research/Interest: World history; Chinese History; Islam in Asia; Religious Minorities in World History; Exile; Diaspora and Historiography; Comparative Human Rights; Chinese Muslim history.
Select Publications:
Books:
The Ten Lost Tribes: A World History, Oxford University Press (published, August 2009).
The Dao of Muhammad: A Cultural History of Muslims in Late Imperial China. Harvard University Asia Center, 2005.
In Progress:
Book, Crescent China: Islam and the Nation after Empire (research completed, under contract with Oxford University Press).
Edited Volume, The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Diasporas (under contract with Oxford University Press).
Edited Volume, Modern Middle Eastern Jewish Thought: An Anthology (under contract with University Press of New England).
Articles/Chapters:
“‘Nine Years in Egypt’: The Chinese at al-Azhar University,” Hagar, “‘Nine Years in Egypt’: The Chinese at al-Azhar University,” HAGAR, Studies in Culture, Polity and Identities Vol.8 (1) 2008: 105-128.
“The Marrano Emperor: The Mysterious Bond between Zhu Yuanzhang and the Chinese Muslims,” in Sarah Schneewind, Long Live the Emperor!: Uses of the Ming Founder Across Six Centuries of East Asian History. Ming studies research series, no. 4. 2008. pp. 275-308.
“Invisible Exile: Iraqi Jews in Israel,” in The Limits of Exile, special issue, Journal of Inter-Disciplinary Crossroads, Vol. 3, No. 1 (April 2006), pp. 135-162.
“The Limits of Exile,” in The Limits of Exile, Special Issue, Journal of Inter-Disciplinary Crossroads, special issue, Journal of Inter-Disciplinary Crossroads, Vol. 3, No. 1 (April 2006), pp. 1-9. (With David Kettler)
“Islam, Origin Consciousness and Historical Consciousness in Early Modern China,” in The Past and Beyond: Studies in History and Philosophy Presented to Elazar Weinryb, Ora Limor et al eds. Raanana: Open University Press, 2006, pp. 135-169. (In Hebrew)
The Jewish State as an Aryan State: Michael Selzer, the Oriental Jews, and the “Third Exile,” Theory and Criticism, April 2005, pp. 255-260. (In Hebrew)
"Sleeper Agents: Religious Expansion, Assimilation, and the Islamic ‘Conquest’ of China in the Christian Missionary Imagination,” Port-Louis, Mauritius: Hassam Toorawa Trust Occasional Papers, 2005.
“From ‘Literati’ to ‘`Ulama’: The Origins of Chinese Muslim Nationalist Historiography,” Nationalism and Ethnic Politics Vol. 9, No. 4 (Winter, 2003/4), pp. 83-109.
“‘Even unto China’: Displacement and Chinese Muslim Myths of Origin,” in Bulletin of the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies, Winter, 2002/3, pp. 93-114.
“Les Partis Religieux en Israel,” in Revue d’études Palestiniennes (61:9), autumn, 1996, pp. 16-26.
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