Reuven Amitai

Reuven Amitai is Eliahu Elath Professor for the History of the Muslim Peoples at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and director there of the Nehemia Levtzion Center for Islamic Studies. He studies and teaches the history of the pre-modern Islamic world, specializing in the following fields: the coming of the Turks and Mongols to the Middle East, Muslim responses to the Crusades, the Mamluk Sultanate, the Ilkhanate (the Mongol state in the Middle East), medieval Palestine, the military history of the pre-modern Muslim world, and conversion to Islam.

resources on the web

Nehemia Levtzion Center for Islamic Studies, HUJ
The author's profile.
http://islam-center.huji.ac.il/reuven_cv_h.asp