Yaron Ayalon
Biographic Data
| ID | 1403153 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yaron Ayalon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yaron |
| FAMILY NAME | Ayalon |
| SIGNATURE | AYALON Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | 1Princeton, NJ |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9364-7932 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Epidemics in premodern Middle Eastern society and thought
This article examines thought about and responses to epidemics in the Middle East before the 19th century. Its focus is mostly on approaches to plagues, the responses of state officials to them, and people's reactions in the Ottoman period (16th–18th centuries), with some attention given to the early Islamic and Mamluk periods. Among issues explored are distribution of grain, price control measures, tax adjustments, and an array of other actions …
Colonial Justice and the Jews of Venetian Crete, written by Rena N. Lauer
Rethinking Rabbinical Leadership in Ottoman Jewish Communities
This article reexamines the role of rabbinical leadership among Ottoman Jews. It defines the Ottoman Jewish experience by rabbis' ability to enforce a communal culture in which the center of individual and collective life revolved around Jewish law; by the part rabbis and lay leaders played in sustaining communal institutions and services; and by the links between Jewish communal organization and that of the Ottoman state. I argue that up to the …
Natural Disasters in the Ottoman Empire: Plague, Famine, and Other Misfortunes
This book explores the history of natural disasters in the Ottoman Empire and the responses to them on the state, communal, and individual levels. Yaron Ayalon argues that religious boundaries between Muslims and non-Muslims were far less significant in Ottoman society than commonly believed. Furthermore, the emphasis on Islamic principles and the presence of Islamic symbols in the public domain were measures the state took to enhance its reputat…
Nature and Empire in Ottoman Egypt: An Environmental History
Alan Mikhail, Nature and Empire in Ottoman Egypt: An Environmental History (2011), xxv+ 347 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and New York, £55.00/$95.00). Alan Mikhail's Nature and Empire is
Ottoman Urban Privacy in Light of Disaster Recovery
This article examines the relationship between state and society in the Ottoman Empire during the 17th and 18th centuries by examining concepts and practices of privacy. Fatwas of Ottoman jurists reveal certain principles ordering the division of urban areas into public and private spaces. The article explores their application during the rebuilding of Damascus after its devastation by an earthquake in 1759. Archival sources disclose the prioriti…
Revisiting Tāhā Husayn's Fī al-Shi'r al-Jāhilī and its sequel
In 1926, Tāhā Husayn published Fī al-shi'r al-jāhilī, a book in which he analyzed the language and style of pre-Islamic poetry, and argued that some poems were written in the Islamic period. A few passages in the work questioning the historicity of the Qur'ān infuriated the religious establishment in Egypt. Accused of blasphemy and threatened to lose his professorship at the Egyptian University, Husayn was summoned before a court that charged and…
Richelieu in Arabic: The Catholic Printed Message to the Orient in the Seventeenth Century
Throughout most of the seventeenth century, the printer and publisher Antoine Vitré dominated the printing of Arabic in Paris. He produced mainly religious texts, intended for use by missionaries in the Orient. One of these books was the Arabic translation of Cardinal Richelieu's famous catechism Instruction du Chrétien. This article looks at the story behind the preparation of the Arabic edition, its printing, and its use by missionaries. It exp…
Nature and Empire in Ottoman Egypt: An Environmental History
Alan Mikhail, Nature and Empire in Ottoman Egypt: An Environmental History (2011), xxv+ 347 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and New York, £55.00/$95.00). Alan Mikhail's Nature and Empire is
Ottoman Urban Privacy in Light of Disaster Recovery
This article examines the relationship between state and society in the Ottoman Empire during the 17th and 18th centuries by examining concepts and practices of privacy. Fatwas of Ottoman jurists reveal certain principles ordering the division of urban areas into public and private spaces. The article explores their application during the rebuilding of Damascus after its devastation by an earthquake in 1759. Archival sources disclose the prioriti…
Richelieu in Arabic: The Catholic Printed Message to the Orient in the Seventeenth Century
Throughout most of the seventeenth century, the printer and publisher Antoine Vitré dominated the printing of Arabic in Paris. He produced mainly religious texts, intended for use by missionaries in the Orient. One of these books was the Arabic translation of Cardinal Richelieu's famous catechism Instruction du Chrétien. This article looks at the story behind the preparation of the Arabic edition, its printing, and its use by missionaries. It exp…
Revisiting Tāhā Husayn's Fī al-Shi'r al-Jāhilī and its sequel
In 1926, Tāhā Husayn published Fī al-shi'r al-jāhilī, a book in which he analyzed the language and style of pre-Islamic poetry, and argued that some poems were written in the Islamic period. A few passages in the work questioning the historicity of the Qur'ān infuriated the religious establishment in Egypt. Accused of blasphemy and threatened to lose his professorship at the Egyptian University, Husayn was summoned before a court that charged and…
Ottoman Urban Privacy in Light of Disaster Recovery
This article examines the relationship between state and society in the Ottoman Empire during the 17th and 18th centuries by examining concepts and practices of privacy. Fatwas of Ottoman jurists reveal certain principles ordering the division of urban areas into public and private spaces. The article explores their application during the rebuilding of Damascus after its devastation by an earthquake in 1759. Archival sources disclose the prioriti…
Nature and Empire in Ottoman Egypt: An Environmental History
Alan Mikhail, Nature and Empire in Ottoman Egypt: An Environmental History (2011), xxv+ 347 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and New York, £55.00/$95.00). Alan Mikhail's Nature and Empire is
Natural Disasters in the Ottoman Empire: Plague, Famine, and Other Misfortunes
This book explores the history of natural disasters in the Ottoman Empire and the responses to them on the state, communal, and individual levels. Yaron Ayalon argues that religious boundaries between Muslims and non-Muslims were far less significant in Ottoman society than commonly believed. Furthermore, the emphasis on Islamic principles and the presence of Islamic symbols in the public domain were measures the state took to enhance its reputat…
Rethinking Rabbinical Leadership in Ottoman Jewish Communities
This article reexamines the role of rabbinical leadership among Ottoman Jews. It defines the Ottoman Jewish experience by rabbis' ability to enforce a communal culture in which the center of individual and collective life revolved around Jewish law; by the part rabbis and lay leaders played in sustaining communal institutions and services; and by the links between Jewish communal organization and that of the Ottoman state. I argue that up to the …
Colonial Justice and the Jews of Venetian Crete, written by Rena N. Lauer
Epidemics in premodern Middle Eastern society and thought
This article examines thought about and responses to epidemics in the Middle East before the 19th century. Its focus is mostly on approaches to plagues, the responses of state officials to them, and people's reactions in the Ottoman period (16th–18th centuries), with some attention given to the early Islamic and Mamluk periods. Among issues explored are distribution of grain, price control measures, tax adjustments, and an array of other actions …
History (8 works) · Ancient history (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Archaeology (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Classics (4 works) · History (4 works) · Islamic Studies and History (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Geography (3 works)