Maya Shatzmiller

Biographic Data

ID334042
NAMEMaya Shatzmiller
GIVEN NAMESMaya
FAMILY NAMEShatzmiller
SIGNATURESHATZMILLER M
AFFILIATIONSWestern University
ORCID0000-0001-5614-7165
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS39
TOTAL CITATIONS43
AUTHOR COUNT38
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1975
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX4

  • Caliphs and Merchants: Cities and Economies of Power in the Near East (700–950)

    Maya ShatzmillerARTICLESpeculum2023

  • Structural change and economic development in the Islamic Middle East 700–1500: Population levels and property rights

    Open AccessMaya ShatzmillerARTICLEScottish Journal of Political…2021References: 12

    Economic historians have recently treated Islamic institutions as “growth retarding,” “averse to change,” “path dependent,” “lacking creative destruction” and “extractive” rather than “inclusive” and blamed their failure to change for the underdevelopment of the Middle East. This paper argues for a different approach to Islamic institutions which implies that they boosted economic growth. The paper explores changes in economic structures, a trans…

  • Recent trends in Middle East economic history: Cultural factors and structural change in the medieval period 650–1500 (Part one)

    Open AccessMaya ShatzmillerARTICLEHistory Compass2018References: 18

    Economic historians have returned in recent years to blaming the prolonged economic decline of the Middle East on cultural factors. At the root of the problem, as they see it, were economic institutions rendered inefficient by the religion of Islam and Islamic law, and they have used evidence from the Islamic medieval Middle East as support. This paper reviews the various strands of the argument and critically assesses its use of historical evide…

  • Recent trends in Middle East economic history: Cultural factors and structural change in the medieval period 650–1500 (Part two)

    Open AccessMaya ShatzmillerARTICLEHistory Compass2018Cited by: 1References: 3

  • The Adoption of Paper in the Middle East, 700-1300 ad

    Maya ShatzmillerARTICLEJournal of the Economic and…2018Cited by: 3

    The adoption of paper in the Middle East changed literacy practices and improved economic performance, yet current accounts remain unhelpful for understanding why and how it happened. This paper offers a new analysis of the long-term factors behind the adoption of paper in the Middle East, combining insights from economic theory, economic history and evidence from quantitative studies. The paper establishes a long-term trend in the price of writi…

  • Plagues, Wages, and Economic Change in the Islamic Middle East, 700-1500

    Open AccessSevket Pamuk, Pınar Ceylan et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Economic History2014Cited by: 11References: 41

    This study establishes long-term trends in the purchasing power of the wages of unskilled workers and develops estimates for GDP per capita for medieval Egypt and Iraq. Wages were heavily influenced by two long-lasting demographic shocks, the Justinian Plague and the Black Death and the slow population recovery that followed. As a result, they remained above the subsistence minimum for most of the medieval era. We also argue that the environment …

  • The Economic History of the Medieval Middle East: Strengths, Weaknesses, and the Challenges Ahead

    Open AccessMaya ShatzmillerARTICLEInternational Journal Middle East…2012References: 3

    One may say that our field has had a respectable crop of scholars engaged in research and numerous important publications to its credit. Past investigations of the agricultural sector have included excellent coverage of taxation systems and tax rates, good coverage of cultivation methods and crops, not very thorough coverage of landholding patterns, and almost no studies of productivity rates. For the manufacturing sector we have very good covera…

  • Economic Performance and Economic Growth in the Early Islamic World

    Maya ShatzmillerARTICLEJournal of the Economic and…2011Cited by: 6

    The author argues that in the case of Islamic history, the growing interest in the economic theory of institutions and their role in economic growth has shifted the scholarly methodology from empirically based research, to theoretical models which favoured sweeping generalizations about the negative roles of the Islamic state and legal institution. Shatzmiller’s examinations of the role of Islamic institutions in periods of economic growth show t…

  • Nationalism and Minority Identities in Islamic Societies

    Maya ShatzmillerBOOKNationalism and Minority…2005

    The movement of nation building in Islamic societies away from the secular or Pan-Arab models of the early twentieth century toward a variety of nationalisms was accompanied by growing antagonism between the Muslim majority and ethnic or religious minorities. The papers in Nationalism and Minority Identities in Islamic Societies offer a comparative analysis of how these minorities developed their own distinctive identities within the modern Islam…

  • Islam and Bosnia: Conflict Resolution and Foreign Policy in Multi-Ethnic Societies

    Keith Doubt, Maya ShatzmillerARTICLESociology of Religion2005

    Journal Article Islam and Bosnia: Conflict Resolution and Foreign Policy in Multi-Ethnic Societies. Maya Shatzmiller (Ed.). Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002, 240 p.; $75.00 (cloth), $22.95 U.S./ $27.95 CDN (paper) Get access Keith Doubt Keith Doubt Wittenberg UniversityUpper Arlington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 66, Issue 1, Spring 2005, Pages 92–93, https:/…

  • Islam and Bosnia: Conflict Resolution and Foreign Policy in Multi-Ethnic States

    Helena Kane Finn, Maya ShatzmillerARTICLEForeign Affairs2003Cited by: 2

    Islam and Bosnia re-examines the conflict of the 1990s from the perspectives of international relations, conflict resolution, and history as well as psychology, anthropology, and cultural studies. Rejecting the primordialist, or ancient hatreds, interpretation as the root of the conflict, the authors detail how a complex cultural transformation led to the erosion of what had been the common inclusionist base of a multi-ethnic state and brought ab…

  • The Creation of the Principality of Antioch, 1098-1130 . Thomas S. Asbridge

    Maya ShatzmillerARTICLESpeculum2002

  • Islam and Bosnia: Conflict Resolution and Foreign Policy in Multi-Ethnic States

    Maya ShatzmillerBOOKIslam and Bosnia2002

  • Ibn al-Jazzar On Fevers: The Original Arabic Text With an English Translation, Introduction and Commentary edited by Gerrit Bos

    Open AccessMaya ShatzmillerARTICLEJournal of History2002

  • Islamic Institutions and Property Rights: The Case of the 'Public Good' Waqf

    Maya ShatzmillerARTICLEJournal of the Economic and…2001Cited by: 2

    The paper examines the institutional economic performance of the public good waqf with the intent of demonstrating the relevance of institutions to the momentous debate over Islamic backwardness and European progress and the waqf's role as supporter of learning institutions and promoter of social integration. Through the application of two sets of theoretical paradigms designed for measuring institutional behaviour, property rights and institutio…

  • Labour in the Medieval Islamic World

    Jean-Claude Garcin, Jean‐Claude Garcin et al.ARTICLEStudia Islamica1997

  • Women and Wage Labour in the Medieval Islamic West: Legal Issues in an Economic Context

    Maya ShatzmillerARTICLEJournal of the Economic and…1997Cited by: 3

    The evidence of the late medieval period, 11th-15th centuries, indicates that women's participation in the labour market was both considerable and diversified. This paper studies whether and how women's wage labour was affected, controlled and regulated by laws, courts and judges, by using an array of the Mālikī legal sources from Muslim Spain and North Africa. It shows the existence of a legal approach straddling a strict application of the law …

  • Crusaders and Muslims in Twelfth-Century Syria

    Yehoshua Frenkel, Maya ShatzmillerARTICLEStudia Islamica1996

    This volume brings together papers by Crusades' experts from England, France, Canada and the United States discussing the confrontation between the Franks and Muslims in 12th-century Syria, balancing the traditional European view with an Islamic perspective. Each author's individual contribution lies in the new ideas and insights to a particular topic such as new interpretations in Crusades studies, Latin jurists in the Levant, the Italian coloni…

  • Marriage, Family, and the Faith: Women's Conversion To Islam

    Open AccessMaya ShatzmillerARTICLEJournal of Family History1996Cited by: 4

    This article studies what conversion to Islam meant in legal terms for women and how it affected their marriage, conjugal rights, children, and property rights in two circumstances: one, when conversion was of their own volition, and the other, when it was not their own decision, but that of their husbands or fathers. A cluster offive conversion documents-three for Christian, Jewish, and pagan males, and two for Christian and pagan females—from a…

  • Women and Property Rights in Al-Andalus and the Maghrib: Social Patterns and Legal Discourse

    Maya ShatzmillerARTICLEIslamic Law and Society1995Cited by: 1

    This essay focuses on the implementation of women's property rights in al-Andalus and the Maghrib in the period between the tenth and fifteenth centuries, as reflected in legal sources. An examination of Islamic property and family law, judicial practice, and the attitude of jurists toward women indicates that the majority of Muslim women owned property independently at some point in their lives, that women acquired property at every stage of the…

  • Children of Bondage: A Social History of the Slave Society at the Cape of Good Hope, 1652-1838, by Robert C.-H. Shell

    Open AccessMaya ShatzmillerARTICLEJournal of History1995

    "Children of Bondage: A Social History of the Slave Society at the Cape of Good Hope, 1652-1838, by Robert C.-H. Shell." Canadian Journal of History, 30(3), pp. 550–551

  • Crusaders and Muslims in Twelfth-Century Syria

    Reuven Amitai, Reuven Amitai-Prei et al.ARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1995

    This volume brings together papers by Crusades' experts from England, France, Canada and the United States discussing the confrontation between the Franks and Muslims in 12th-century Syria, balancing the traditional European view with an Islamic perspective. Each author's individual contribution lies in the new ideas and insights to a particular topic such as new interpretations in Crusades studies, Latin jurists in the Levant, the Italian coloni…

  • Palais et demeures de Fès, I: Epoques Mérinide et Saadienne (XIVe-XVIIe siècles)

    Maya Shatzmiller, J Revault et al.ARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1989

  • Aspects of Women's Participation in the Economic Life of Later Medieval Islam: Occupations and Mentalities

    Maya ShatzmillerARTICLEArabica1988

    T should be unnecessary, even redundant, to explain the need to linvestigate the question of women's participation in the economic life of medieval Islam. Women constituted half of the potentially productive power in an economy correctly perceived as prosperous and sophisticated in comparison with its contemporaries. Finding out if and how much women contributed to this prosperity seems imperative, and so are other questions related to it, such a…

  • L'historiographie merinide. Ibn Khaldun et ses contemporains

    Werner Schwartz, Maya ShatzmillerARTICLEDie Welt des Islams1987